Two old sayings, "the mail must go through'" and "the show must go on," are very familiar to everyone.  There is another that can be added to that.  It is tradition that the newspaper never miss an edition.
    Last week the Gazette Bulletin had some untimely trouble, although not to serious.  It would happen right in the middle of the Thursday publishing run, with other 25 per cent of the paper published.  The big motor that turns the press went completely out.  
    Mansfield's Electric Company's motor department promised quickest possible service in a critical moment, but it meant a trip to San Antonio, and the complete changeover to a new motor.  The time element was uncertain, to say the least.
    One of the boys in the shop said, "what we need is a JEEP!"  A glance at the press section showed our power pulley assembly was, in part, directly in line with the back door.  A ring on the telephone got the car dealer of L. L. Rhea, local Willy's dealer.  He had no doubt that a Jeep with a power takeoff could do the job.  We tried it out, backed the Jeep up opposite the rear door, obtained a belt and drove directly onto the drive shaft.
    It worked.  Not a whimper, no one second of trouble.  The jeep just purred along like a sleeping kitten, and the Gazette Bulletin rolled of the press on time, with little lost motion.
    They say the Jeep is a car of a thousand jobs, and it really proved to be a Jack-of-all-Trades on farms and in the war, but probably this is the first time it was ever called upon to furnish the power to print an edition of a newspaper.  
    Meanwhile, the electrician lost no time in going to San Antonio for a motor, and by mid afternoon the power plant was back in its usual efficiency.  But the efficient little workhorse, the Jeep, saved a half dozen valuable hours, in getting the Gazette Bulletin into the mails.
Guadalupe, Gazette Bulletin, June 14, 1948