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The Citizens Journal
PIFTY-N1KTH YEAR
IS NEW FARM BILL
PROVIDES QUOTA
ATLANTA, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1938
Rotary Club
Discusses Civic
Problems
The program at the Rotary club
last Thursday was a vocational
service program. The subject be-
ing "Employer, Employee Rela-
tions." The program was conducted
by Edgar W. King Vocational chair
man. Bill Cazort and Gunter Eng-
land jipoke in consideration of plans
developed by the employer for the
mutual beenfit of themselves and
their employees. Bill Cazort using
the plans of the Standard Oil Co.
and Gunter England the plans of
the American Bell Telephone Co.
both revealing the fact that the
plans adopted created satisfaction
among employees.
Stuart McCarty spoke 011 plans
developed ond being developed by
ylhe state for the benefit of the em-
ployees of the State Highway
Department and that he saw many
changes that were coming that will
improve employer-Employee rela-
tions in the State Highway Depart-
See ROTARY on last page
Justice Court
Has Busy Day
Justice of the Peace, E. Nelson,
presided over the regular session of
the local justice court Tuesday.
M. Steger, with the railroad com
mission, filed five cases against
La-Tex Motor Lines, for operating
motor trucks without paying state
license. They made an appearance
bond for March 22.
'1 he highway patrol brought sev-
eral cases to court. Ed M. Robbins
of Joplin, Mo., was fined $10.00 and
costs for transporting sweet po-
tatoes to Texas from Louisiana
against the quarantine.
Hamilton Green, Texarkana, was
fined $1.00 and costs for reckless
driving.
Robert S. Twitty, Texarkana, was
fined $1.00 and costs for reckless
driving.
C. E. Cook was carried to Linden
charged with reckless driving.
One woman was fined $1.00 and
costs for being intoxicated.
Sam Williams, colored, of At-
lanta, was fined $10.00 and costs
for assault.
The establishment of cotton mar-
keting quotas, based on farm acre-
age allotments, is authorized for
all cotton producing farms under
provision of the Agricultural Ad-
justment Act of 1938, the new mea-
sure passed by Congress to streng-
then the Agricultural Conservation
Program and provide more effec-
tive control of burdensome crop sur
pluses, according to George Slaugh-
ter, Chairman of Texas Agricul-
tural Conservation Committee.
The Adjustment Act provides
for a national cotton allotment of
approximately 10,750,000 bales in
1938. The tentative cotton allot-
ment for Texas in 1938 will be
about 9,800,000 acres. The number
of acres needed, at normal yields,
to produce the baleage allotment
will be apportioned to the cotton
producing states and counties, with
no county to receive less than 60
per cent of the cotton acreage
planted and diverted in that coun-
ty in 1937. The county allotment
will be divided among individual
farms, with special consideration
for small producers.
This division will give all farms
a minimum allotment up to five
acres of cotton and a small allot-
ment will be available for produc-
ers receiving between 5 and 10
acres. The remainder of the county
allotment will be divided in such
manner as to give each farm in
the county or administrative area
a uniform percentage of the crop-
land on the farm after excluding
wheat and rice acreage and the
acreage used for commercial live-
stock production as its cotton acre-
age allotment. No farm may have
an allotment greater than its plant- j
ed and diverted cotton acreage in
any of the past three years.
The 1938 marketing quota of an |
individual farm will be the larger
of the actual or normal amount of
cotton produced on that farm's |
acreage allotment, plus any cotton
Revival at First Baptist
Church «Very Promising
g2ia FamlU— Par 2.40 0 W—k
NO LONGER A DREAM.
Earn! coast. Wwt cooit. aU
up and down th« land, the
pound of hammers. buzx
of caws, ring of trowels
and grind oi concratc mix-
ers proclaims In no uncer-
tain terms the reviyal oi
sound prosperity — Here
are a lew oi the hundreds
oi governmental and pri
vately financed housing
projects already wholly or
partiaUr compleltd
throughout the nation.
Band Director
From Bhacfcl to Modem Apartment*
House ol the Modern
Single Dwellings
Homes
NAT
HAYES
at $10 per Room per Month
£
P.A.S
NO. SEVEN
NO. 1 RILEY CASS COUNTY
OUTPOST NEARS PAY SAND
Never perhaps in the religious
history of Atlanta did such an op-
portunity afford itself as is now
offered at the First Baptist church
in presenting to the town and sur-
rounding communities Rev. Hyman
Appelman, Baptist evangelist for
the Baptist General Convention of
Texas.
Rev. Mr. Appelman has a very
unusual record in that he had ap-
proximately 3,800 additions to the
churches under his ministry in 1937
All of his dates are taken for 1939.
Emergency Loans
Being Made to
Farmers
Cannery Attracts
Outside Interest
and feed loans for 1938 are now
carried over by the farm from the | being received at Atlanta by Dewey
More than 60 farmers crowded
j the recitation room in the high
Applications for emergency crop 1 school building Saturday afternoon
1937 crop. In other words, the
farmer may sell, without restric-
Continued on last page
Cass Countians
At Proration Meet
Ab Brabham of Atlanta and El-
mer Patman of Linden attended the
state wide proration hearing at Aus
tin Friday of the railroad commis-
sion.
Elmer Patman urged a readjust-
ment of Cass county allowable in
the tri-state field to minimize the
drainage by wells in Louisiana and
Arkansas.
A "rock along policy" under
present schedules with changes in
allowables to be made later, was
suggested by Col. E. O. Thompson.
Chairman C. V. Terrell said the
Federal Bureau of Mines estimate
of the market demand for Texas
crude during March was 1,344,900
barrels daily, a decline of 20,800
barrels under this month's esti-
mate. With one day a week closing
reducing the Texas outlet about
one-seventh, Thompson said the
Current allowable was 1,235,000 bar
'rels, or 109,300 barrels less than
the bureau's estimate of March de-
mand.
Supply House Opens
In Atlanta
Atlanta's first oil well supply
house opened this week in the At-
lanta Wholesale Grocer building on
East Grand street. A. C. Oden is
the popular manager of the Univer-
sal Engineering company's local
warehouse and office. They former-
ly were located in Rodessa but as
Atlanta is fast becoming the center
of the tri-state oil field, they de-
cided to locate here. Other com-
panies are planning to move to
Atlanta in the future.
L. Chapman, Field Supervisor of
the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan
Section of the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration.
The loans will be made, as in
the past, only to farmers who can-
not obtain credit from any other
source. The money loaned will be
limited to the fanner's immediate
and actual cash needs for growing
his 1938 crops or for the purchase
of feed for livestock, and the
amount which may be loaned to any
one farmer in 1938 may not ex-
ceed $400.
Farmers who obtain the funds
they need from an individual, pro-
duction credit association, bank, or
other concern are not eligible for
crop and feed loans from the Emer-
gency Crop and Feed Loan Sec-
tion of the Farm Credit Adminis-
tration. The loans will not be made
to standard rehabilitation clients
whose current needs are provided
for by the Farm Security Adminis-
tration, formerly known as the Re-
settlement Administration.
As in the past, farmers who ob-
tain emergency crop and feed loans
will give as Security a first lien on
the crop financed, or a first lien on
the livestock to be fed if the money
borrowed is to be used to produce
or purchase feed for livestock.
Where loans are made to tenants,
the landlords, or others having an
interest in the crops financed or
the livestock to be fed, are requir-
ed to waive their claims in favor
of a lien to the Governor of the
Farm Administration until the loan
is repaid.
Checks in payment of approved
Canning Factory
Stock Being Sold
Additional subscriptions for stock
in the canning factory have been
made during the past week. At the
meeting Saturday, Mr. Wharton,
who is organizing this company
here, stated that the work is pro-
gressing satisfactorily and that the
building of the canning factory is
assured. Atlanta is taking the lead
in this enterprise and is setting the
pace for East Texas and bids fair
to be the center of a great canning
ndustry.
Demonstration At
Pecan Orchard
W. D. Sims, pecan specialist of
the State Department of Agricul-
ture held a pecan demonstration
Wednesday Feb. 23 at the John J.
Ellington farm 3 miles east of
Douglassville. Mr. Sims worked
with Cass county agent R. L. White
and discussed pecans, showing how
to prune, care for and bud them.
Those present were shown how to
take care of an orchard.
6,500 Feet of Paving
To Be Added Here
Approximately 6,500 feet of ad-
ditional street paving was started
Monday afternoon. 1'JO WPA work-
ers will be employed better than
5 months on this project. Concrete
curbs and gutters will be construct-
ed. A double bitiminous asphalt
topping will cover the iron ore base.
All property owners along the
new project are urged to come in
and make their payment at once.
The first to pay will be the first
to get their paving done. The pro-
perty owners are required to pay
only one third of the cost.
Following is a list of streets _to , wjU be mailed from the He-
be paved with approximate length Einergency Crop and Feed
of improvements.
Taylor street, 700 feet, Louise
street 200 feet past Trices.
Tipton street 700 feet. Commenc-
ing at Louise street and running to
Scott street. Scott street, 200 ft.
beginning at Taylor and running to
Tipton.
Mills street 400 feet from Hiram
to Butler.
Buckner, grade school to Geo.
Smith's—1,275 feet.
W. Grand, 250 feet extension.
Wood 500 feet, beginning at Buck-
ner running to Louise.
Morris street, beginning at W.
Grand and running to Buckner, 250
feet.
Baugus Springs, beginning at
Hiram and running to Main, 500 ft.
New street, Louise to Howe, 500
feet.
Bengus street, beginning at Hir-
am and running to Main, 250 feet.
at 2 o'clock, in which was held a
meeting of a large group of our
most progressive farmers who are
interested in grwing and market-
ing tomatoes.
Besides the usual program and
matters of business about which
this group is concerned there was
a highly instructive and very in-
teresting talk by Mr. E. P. Bar-
rios, the commissioner of agricul-
ture of the Texas & Pacific rail
road.
In his talk, Mr. Barrios stated
that no attempt would be made to
paint a rosy picture or to make
statements that might tend to de-
ceive his hearers; on the other
hand, he insisted that a large
amount of work is necessary if
our tomato raising program is to be
a success and that the farmers who
imagine he can make money or
have any degree of success at this
enterprise without doing a large
amount of work is deceiving him-
self and would be sure to be dis-
appointed with results.
From the interest manifested at
this meeting, it is quite evident
that a large acreage will be plant-
ed to tomatoes this year and that
the growers can reasonably expect
several buyers to be present when
the crop is being harvested and that
the competition between the buyers
will insure the top market price for
tomatoes as they are gathered.
Atlanta Ban a Keceive
New Uniforms
The Atlanta Band is complete in
every detail. Forty-five new uni-
forms arrived February 20, and
most of their new instruments have
arrived.
Their new instruments are a set
•if tympani drums, costing $350.00;
two base horns, $650.00; a base vio-
lin, $200.00; two Glockenspiels,
$190.00; an oboe, $250.00; a base
clarinet, $250.00; and new music
costing $50.00.
The band will make its first
public appearance in their new uni-
forms March 7, in a concert at the
Atlanta High School auditorium.
The Atlanta band will present
the following program:
The Booster March, March of the
Pilot, and Calif of Bagdad, the last
number being March of the Brave.
Cornet solo, "Trees," Phillip
Fouche.
Xylorimba, The World Is Wait-
his delight at the outlook and he
urges Atlanta to enjoy this unusual
revival meeting.
Tornado Hits North
Rodessa Friday
Leaving a mass of torn and tang
led wreckage in its path approxi-
mately one mile long and one-
fourth mile wide, a tornado swept
two score others
The tornado struck the supply
house district, completely demol-
ishing twelve buildings, toppling
fifteen steel derricks, and splinter-
ed numerous wood structures
throughout the area. Damage is es-
timated at better than $250,000.00.
The majority of the oil field res-
idents who were fatally injured liv-
ed in quarters above and in the rear
of supply houses and in small
houses in the immediate section of
Allowable For
Miller Field
Cut by Board
ing for the Sunrise—Rosalie Price. :
Clarinet solo, Indian Love Call— the business area.
Roy price | Several bodies were carried be-
Baritone solo, Somewhere a I tween six and eiSht hundred yards,
Voice Is Calling—Bill Ramsey. j tln roofing lodged in tree tops over
Trumphet duet, Mars — Robert j a ml!e from the scene of the dis- |
Morris Cameron and
Whisenant.
m. aiij j it 1 I would be able to produce at full
1 he Alldav and Hanner ambu- 1 ., , Cr , , ., ,
I capacity under the March daily al-
lowable of 8,790 barrels set at a
1 . TI , . . , . 1 El Dorado, Ark.—The state con-
Kenneth aster. Heavy machinery stored in . , , ., , „
rvenntm . j servation board said each of the 66
supply houses was blown about the „ . ,, , ., -. ,.
I wells in the Miller county oil field
The state supervisor, S. B. Cul- 1 vicinity.
pepper, will be present at the con- |
cert. The public is invited to attend.
Rodessa Storm
Scenes at Texan
The first exclusive news shots
of the Rodessa storm disaster are
being shown for the last time to-
day on the screen at the Texan
theatre.
The shots show widly the extent
of the terrible disaster that hit
our neighboring town.
giona
Loan Office at Dallas, Texas.
Black Cat Cafe
New Concern
J. B. Ladd has completed the re-
modeling of the corner building on
north side of Hiram street. He is
now operating Black Cat Cafe and
Market. White patrons are served
at the front and colored in the rear
from side entrance.
H. L. Moore, Texarkana, is in
charge of the meat department.
They carry a complete line of
meats.
J. E. (Black Cat Slim) Head is
in charge of the cafe, assisted by
R. E. Phinney.
They invite the general public
to visit them'when hungry.
Thieves Steal While
Owner In Church
While at church Tuesday night
Mr. Jack Jones, Bivins, left $5.00
worth of groceries in his car. Dur-
ing the services thieves entered the
car and stole his groceries. En-
trance was made by first prizing
open the ventilator.
Cars Crash Head-
On Saturday
Couple Drown As
Car Leaves Hiway
Miss Lillie Harper, 24, of Oak
Grove and Wesley Shelton, 23, of
Kildare, were drowned Sunday
night. The accident happened about
9 o'clock when their car crashed
through a Cypress river bridge on
Highway 8 about three miles north I
of Jefferson. Apparently something j
happened to the car which caused
it to take the fatal plunge into
30 feet of water.
Miss Harper managed to get out |
of the car after it sank and her
lances of Atlanta worked all night
bringing the injured to Atlanta.
Cots were hurriedly placed in the
Ellington Memorial hospital and ar-
mory hall to take care of the in-
I jured. Doctors and nurses worked
all night to bring relief to the
suffering.
All but one family of those kill-
ed or injured were white. The only
negroes involved were in one fam-
See TORNADO on last page
Royalty Owners
Meet Friday
meeting here Monday.
The Miller county allowable for
February was 10,500 barrels daily,
but actual production ran only 7,900
barrels, the board said.
The gas-oil ratio, the board said,
would remain at 2,000 to 1.
Tde 10,500 barrel daily allowable
order for the field was a tentative
one, board members said when it
went into effect several weeks ago.
They wished to check the field
further to determine its produc-
tion possibilities before placing an
actual daily allowable order on the
field.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Efaw of Ohio I b?d>' was picked up on the surface _
and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Garrison of tho ^'ater .uv'ie ,, t" thls association on Friday night,
of Queen City were injured when K«1 in the car ami Vus body was not , F b. 25, at 7:30 o'clock in the high
their cars crashed head on. The ac- receoved until the tar had en j school auditorium in Atlanta.
cident happened three miles south-1 brought out of the water. _ | Mr nrabham states that
A. O. Brabham, president of the
Cass County Land and Royalty Griffin Purchases
Owners Association, announces that 1 ^ 0.
there will be a special meeting of ( lemeilts DrUff Store
east of Atlanta on highway 77 Sat-
urday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
They were rushed to Ellington
Memorial hospital for treatment.
Mrs. Efaw, 34, received fractured
skull, two broken legs, two frac-
tured arms and suffered concus-
sion of the brain. Her husband, 44,
received fractured leg, brain con-
cussion and internal injuries.
Mrs. Frank Garrison, 24, receiv-
ed a fractured leg, broken hand and
lacerations about the head. Her hus
band, 27, received only minor cuts
and bruises.
i D. G. Griffin has purchased the
Clements Drug Store on Main
tjle j street and took charge of same
| Funeral services for Miss Har- | workof'the'associatimi to'date will ' Wednesday of this week. He has
I per were held Monday afternoon at
13:30 o'clock at Laws Chapel, con-
] ducted by Rev. Tom A. Walls of
Bivins. Interment in Laws Chapel
cemetery under direction of Han-
ner Funeral Service. She is surviv-
ed by her mother, Mrs. A. Harper,
Alexander Hughes
Redecorated
Alexander-Hughes Drug company
recently the scene of a small blaze,
has been redecorated this week. The
ceiling and walls have been paint-
ed. The fixtures behind the foun-
tain, damage.1 by the fire, have
been removed and replaced. Messrs
Jim Alexander and Bill Hughes in-
vite the public to visit them when
in need of their services.
be discussed and a full and com- i been employed by the Southwest-
plete report of the state-wide pro- f™ G® * Electric^company in At-
ration hearing at Austin last Fri- la"ta for t,le P?f tw? years" H?
dav will be made. j a?ks >'ou to re"d b's advertisement.
This meeting is important and elsevv*cre m tjns issue of the Citi-
should be attended by all members j zens Journal for dru* bargains.
of the association as well as other
three sisters, Mrs. Agnes Steger, pergons interested in the future of j«r 1 r„„ ii 1 „.,,Tr
Mrs. Ouida Watkins, Alias Ru y £ass county as an oil producing OtC TOT V^OlllPU1 SOTV
Crop Control
and
Harper; two brothers, Reed
Coy Harper, all of Atlanta.
Pallbearers were: E. B. Wall,
Jr., Ervin Harper, Austin Wall,
Hubert Wall, Guy Harper and Hous
ton Land.
Funeral services held Tuesday
afternoon at 2:30 for young Shel-
ton. Services at the Kildare Bap-
tist church with Rev. J. P. Olive
officating. He is survived by his
father, W. L. Shelton, stepmother,
Mrs. W. L. Shelton, two sisters,
Sarah Redonia and Annie Lee Shel-
ton of Harlingcn and his mother
Mrs. Ethel Shelton of Harlingen.
Miss Harper was a graduate of
Atlanta High School and was an
instructor in the Kildare school.
Shelton was connected with his
father in the Mercantile business in
Kildare.
producing
section.
Everyone has a special invitation
to attend this meeting. Be there!
Mrs. Vergie Palmore
New Deputy Clerk
Mrs. Vergie Palmore has been
appointed deputy in the county
clerk's office, vice Mrs Forest Whit
worth who resigned. Miss Hattie
Duncan has succeeded Mr. Emmett
Lanier as deputy in the county
clerk's office.
County Clerk, Will C. Hornsey,
reports 610 instruments filed in his
office since January 1, with roy-
alty deeds and leases picking up
around the two outpost wells in
Cass county. He has issued 45 mar-
riage licenses since January 1.
The county agent has received
information that a vote will be tak-
en in the near future to determine
whether or not the fanners want
compulsory crop control.
The records of the county agent's
office show some 000 producers
who did not sign work sheets in
1937, and who have not filed a cen-
sus report for their farm to date.
If the people vote for compulsory
crop control and it is made law, it
will be vitally important for every
farm to be covered by a census re-
port.
All producers who have not made
a census report, should do so im-
mediately. The report may be giver*
to your local committeeman or by
going to the couaty agent's office.
One of Cass county's two outpost
wells, seeking production from a
lateral fault, Vaughn Production
Company No. 1 Riley, James Tay-
lor, survey, is drilling past 5300
feet and due to be watched closely
in the next week.
The other outpost well, to the
northeast, the G. H. Chamblee, trus
tee, No. 1 White-Walker, J. J. Pot-
ter survey, is drilling at 2300 feet.
Operators cemented mid-string at
1,956 feet.
The railroad commission has
changed casing requirements in
Cass and Marion counties. The new
order eliminates requirements for
a conductor string and reduced the
amount of surface pipe necessary
He has a few revivals dated for from 2,000 to 1,000 feet. It is esti-
9 . mated the change will cut the cost
meeting he just closed at of drilling a well from $4,000.00 to
McAlister, Oklahoma, had 261 ad- [ qqq qq
ditions. Go hear the Jew preach ' plugged back to 5,929 feet in the
ttjj, • ,• Gloyd zone from the Dees-Young
Mi. J. I). Riddle, choir director | j1()rjzon ^he Edmund Key No. 1
Beckett, John Collom survey, Cass
county, on 24 hour potential test
produced 281 barrels on 3-16 inch
choke. The wel lis in the northeast
from First Baptist church, Abi-
lene, has charge of the music arid
does splendid directing. He former-
ly taught music in Montazuma Col-
leg®' _ , TT , . . . „ I area of the field and drilled when
Mrs. Oval Harden is pianist for the j was in its early stage.
the meeting. Those who have heard Qn the southwest end, G. H.
her play know that this part of the chamblee Collett No. 1, J. S. Smith
campaign is well performed. s produced 290 barrels from
Pastor P. F. Squyres expresses 5y,)4 feet in 24 h()Urs after install-
ing flow valves. Oil-gas ratio was
2,234-1.
The Bay Oil Co.'s Parker No. 2
Crowder survey, in northeast ex-
tension district, drilling at 3100
feet and company's Cobb No. 5, in
Crowder survey, drilling at 2380
feet.
The outpost test on Louisiana
side, Freeman W. Burford at the
Brown No. 1, section 5-23-15, holds
the spotlight. It is reported coring
past 6100 feet. The well is credited
the western edge of Rodessa last 1 wjth logging a 14-foot ection of
Thursday night at 10:20 to claim a | saturated Mitchell sand with hole
score of lives and critically injure j being carried to Young zone to see
what that horizon carries. No pro-
duction has been developed from
the Mitchell in that immediate area
it being found in Miller county and
northwest part of Louisiana side.
Magnolia Mary Rives 12, John
Collom survey, Cass county, drilling
at 4980 feet.
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