Harris County Public Library Scrapbook (1941-1948)

- - umbl /А ' A Small Paper — But Good PUBLISHED WEEKLY AT HUMBLE, TEXAS $1.00 Year 5c Copy VOL.-l. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1943 NO. 36 Concerning The Victory Book Books to Be Collected At MEDICAL OFFICER Campaign The Houston Press says: “If you were a soldier or a marine fighting Japs on Guadalcanal, how would you like to sit down in a spare moment for a good rousing blood and-thunderstory and find it to be a Little Elsie Dinsmore book. Our men want books, but they want the same kind of books that you men folks want. The Girl Scouts under Miss Mary Isaacks have contributed $3.oO toward the campaign and are starting a contest among themselves for the collection of both funds and books; they are' placing jars in some of the down town stores tor contributions, so be on the look out for them. The Soroeis Club has also con¬ tributed $5:00 as well as books from the individual members and other organizations will no doubt follow suit. It looks like the campaign is getting off to a good start in Humble. Library News Harris County Library, locat- d at th cornr of Vine and Broad¬ way, two blocks west of Elemen¬ tary school, opens every day ex¬ cept Sunday and holidays from 2 to 5 in the afternoons. Over one hundred books were added to the Library collection in Pasadena during September. Most of them were children’s books, as we are helping the Elementary teachers to supply their large in¬ crease in enrollment. Some of the interesting adult books we have are: Levne’s “Mitchell, Pioneer of the Air;” Redmonds “I served on Bataan,” V. M. Mason’s ‘Hang My Wreath,’ I Jim Lully’s “A Dozen and One,” I Margaret Wildes “Since You I Went Away;” “Letters to a Sol¬ dier from His Wife.” Read a few of her happy cheerful, full of fun j and home news and get some idea of what to write our boys. Your Librarian, Mrs. H. J. Burnet.t Schools, Department Stores V. -eo*%% *_\e 3 - & - \ % Committees of the Victory Book Campaign met Saturday at the Houston Public Library to hear reports and plan activities for the remainder of the drive. Mrs. Mal¬ colm B. Whitehead of the A. W. V. S., chairman of the steering committee, presided. A variety of “pick-ups” are planned in the week of March 7-15, Mrs. Whitehead said. The A, W. V. S. will pick up books at the public schools which have been collected by the Boy Scouts; Wal¬ ter Pierson of the steering com¬ mittee will contact department stores for their list of book collec¬ tions, and these will be picked up by the Boy Scouts under the direc tion of Glenn Rice. Junior Red Cross members have been working through the schools and have been turning in books all during the drive. Mrs. Reba Boyles, principal of Sutton School, reported that 150 volumes were collected there. Miss Katherine Seymour, di rector of the A. W. V. S., will ar¬ range with trucking companies which have agreed to donate truck space, to bring in Victory books from Wharton, Victoria and other towns within reasonable range of Houston. Miss Julia Ideson, li¬ brarian of the Houston Public Li¬ brary, plans to correspond with libraries in these locales in ad¬ vance, to be sure that all unde¬ sirable books are discarded before these shipments come into Hous¬ ton. о о о Tri- Cities Drive Planned. The Tri-Cities area is putting on a concentrated drive this week, also, with the chamber of com¬ merce taking part. The retail mer¬ chants and Boy Scouts of this area are staging a second drive, not sat¬ isfied with the 500 books collected in the first. Miss Mary Llewellyn of the Bookmobile turned in 295 books Friday, 150 of which were collect¬ ed by the Boy Scouts of Denver Addition. The Bookmobile also is picking up collections from Hous¬ ton’s branch libraries. Mrs. G. S. Morris of the U. S. O. turned in 45 books from the Fan¬ nin Street center. The library there is being rearranged and sorted over by Mrs. Reba Anderson, county librarian, in preparation for donations to the 1943 campaign. о о о Over 13,000 Collected. Mrs. Mary Alice Hamilton of ithe Public Library has estimated | the total number of books col-' lected to date as 13,266, and there are 1285 copies of the Readers Digest on hand. Books collected by the dairies will also come in this week and a total count from the Interstate Theatre collections will be announced. Early shipments of victory books already sent include the following: Two shipments totaling 175 vol¬ umes to American merchant sea¬ men, 145 books to the navy for Liberty Ship, two shipments, to¬ taling approximately 75 volumes, to Midway Island, one sent by C. M. Reed of the Continental Oil Company, the other by Mrs. W. Alfred Wood of the A. W. V. S. victory book campaign committee: 206 volumes to the coast guard at Port Arthur, 96 to the coast guard at Houston. Again the ca apaign committee asks the public to remember “the book you would like to read your¬ self is a good book to give” to fur¬ nish men in the armed forces with sufficient reading material to meet their needs. The victory books will go to the United States army and the army air corps, the United States navy on specific orders from the Bu¬ reau of Navy Personnel, U. S. O. units and other recreation centers for men in the service, the Amer¬ ican Merchant Marine Library As¬ sociation, to prisoners of war through the war prisoners aid of the International Y. M. C. A. in collaboration with the Internation¬ al Red Cross, and to other welfare services contributing to the armed forces and the merchant marine. After collection in various cities the books will be concentrated, until shipment in warehouse in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Den¬ ver and Fort Worth. Local collection centers, the committee reminds those wishing to give books, include: Henke & Pillot and the Weingarten stores and leading book stores and libra¬ ries. Books are picked up every Tuesday from these centers by the A. W. V. S., every Thursday by the Red Cross Motor Corps, by retail dairies from residences along routes, by Girl Scout home pick¬ up service through calls to the Navy Mothers at the U. S. O.. Bea¬ con 33851, and the A. W. V. S. station wagon special pickups for large donations, Hadley 8244. I I A Recently commissioned in the army medical corps, Lt. Max B. Harrison of La Porte, above, son of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Harrison of La Porte, has been assigned to duty at Fort Edwards, Wash¬ ington. He enlisted in 1940. He was stationed at Camp Liv¬ ingston, La., until sent to the officers’ school at Camp Berke¬ ley, Abilene, where he complet¬ ed requirements for a commis¬ sion. He is a B. A. graduate of the University of Texas and was employed by the Texas Company, Shreveport, when he enlisted. Daily Son 3-11-43 'Book' Movie For Kids Saturday Victory Drive Ends With Show at Texan The Goose Creek Chamber of Commerce victory book cam¬ paign will make its final 'all out1' attempt to add books to the fast increasing pile in the current campaign Saturday by staging a movie at the Texan theater with book the price admission. Plans for the movie were com¬ pleted yesterday by Howard E. Brunson, theater executive, and Abe Rosenzweig, manager of the retail merchants committee of the trade group and chairman of the drive here. The show will start at 10 a. m. Saturday and any child or adult, for that matter, may be admitted to see the Dead End Kids in "Smart Alec,’’ if they hand the doorman a book. “And we do mean a good book,’’ Chairman Rosenzweig said. "A person will not be al¬ lowed to go to a store and buy a dime magazine or book and expect to see the show. We want good books.” The showing of the movie is a complimentary gesture on the part of Mr. Brunson and East Texas Theatres, Inc., as their part in the book campaign, Mr. Rosenzweig said. Daily Son 3-Ц./13 frnms Models In Footlights Show Victory Book Wili Be Admission Price In cooperation with those lead¬ ing the present “Victory Book Campaign,’’ the Footlights Club of Robert E. Lee high school sponsored by Miss Gene Pope and Mrs. Jap Bradshaw, will pre- sent . a comic "Spring Style Re¬ view’’ at 8 p.m. tonight at the Peily City hail for the Pelly city library. More* talent has been added to the show, which recently was pi esented with much success at Robert E Lee in assembly, and the cast is made up entirely of REL students and members of the Footlights club, according to A. C. Cariton, chairman of ar¬ rangements for the Pelly Civic Club. Notables To Appear Commentator will be Joy Locffler and the pianist will be Peggy Aron. Directors of the show are Marieva McMurrain and Libby Rebel-. All are stu¬ dents in REL. Such notables as “Georgia Ann” Walmsley, alias George “Football” Walmsley, “Orvella” (Orvill) Hutto, and “Mary Doug” (Douglas) Stewart, will model the latest womens’ spring fash¬ ions. Admission to the show will be a good book, which in turn will be sent to service men. Many laughs are promised and the townspeople as well as stu¬ dents are cordially invited to “bring a book” and see a good show. The Models In the play tog group, girls clothes will be modeled by Pat Taylor, Jack Wier, Jack Baines, Tyrits King, and Raymond Fields. Boys apparel will be modeled by Vera Manteris, Bernice Carter, Doris Hudgins, Jane Mitchell and Dimple Hamilton. Boys modeling girls clothes for small children include Fred Guisendorf, George Walmsley, Richard Kouba, Dick Farrington and Bobby Foley, while girls modeling boys' togs in this group will include Martha Legler, Christine Bargainer, Wanda Yel- verten, Irene Partin and Wanda Lou Hendrix. The high school age will next be modeled, and the boys wear¬ ing girls designs in this group wili include S. L. Knowles, D„ou: las Stewart, and Orvil Hut¬ to, while girls modeling boys 1о",ч win include Joyce Tro'lin- gcr, Mary Lou Currie, and Doro¬ thy Decker. Zoot Suits Too Babe Goldfield, Dean Grant, and I). C. Hicks will model girls while Bernice Perry, Jimmie Lee Fayle, and Betty Nelson will model boys clothes. Robert Paul and Milton Barn¬ well will wear girls models in the evening clothes section, while Betty Ruth Snyder and Janet Connor will wear boys’ Zoot suits will be modeled by Mildred Heflin, Jeann Hornsby, Alice Bristlcy, and Doris Hol- laway. Defense uniforms will I be modeled in the finale by Vera Manteris, Pat Taylor, and Babe Goldfield. Included in the specialty acts will bo the portrayal of Lilt- Red Riding Hood by anacUm group including Vera Mantc as Little Red Riding Hood Roa Smith as the big bad wolf. Richard Kouba as the wood man. . Douglas Stewart уМ gg the story of the tmco Bclba White will give a >cadm„ Wanda Yelvcrton will Sing. Elmo MilHkcn will give a tcaa f 1