The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1945 Page: 4 of 23
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Grand Saline Fast Becoming One
Of State's Vegetable Markets
Grand Saline and Van Zandt County
an fast becoming one of the state’*
vegetable center*. In Texa* that ia
•eying a lot.
Only a few years ago, Van Zandt
County was content to produce one
crop a year—cotton—and then during
Many seasons the yield was so dis-
•ouragingly low that farmers scouted
•round for some other means to meet
(he mortgage and annual debts with-
out resorting to the local banker.
But several years ago a man from
the North came South. His name was
W. O. Pinch. Finch was seeking his
hesdth.
It was west of Grand Saline that
he found it and also a design for
living. That was growing vegetables.
Talking and backing up his tall
talk with practical methods of farm-
ing, Finch soon had other farmers
listening to him. He was making mo-
ney, and farmers “savvy” a farmer
who can make money out of a new-
fangled idea for producing more crops
auid crops that will sell at a profit.
Since that time, Van Zandt County
has (been unable to meet the demand
each year for the finest vegetables
produced in Texas in the high mineral
content soil of its own lands.
With the phenomenal growth of the
vegetable industry in Van Zandt
County, Grand Saline has kept abreast.
Grand Saline’s foresight was con-
gealed into fact a year ago, when
the Van Zandt County Vegetable
Growers Association constructed and
paid for a large vegetable packing
shed at the Main Street Crossing of
the Texas and Pacific Railway.
Already this shed is becoming too
small for the anticipated business in
the 1946 and succeeding seasons. The
past seasons—spring and fall—wit-
nessed the movement of probaibly
Grand Saline’s greatest vegetable ton-
nage to markets throughout the United
States.
The movement included cucumbers,
tomatoes, sweet corn, squash, must-
ard greens, turnips and other vege-
tables on a smaller scale.
In addition to vegetables, sweet
potatoes are produced extensively in
Van Zandt County. One of the larg-
est kiln drying plants in East Texas
is located in Grand Saline.
Game Warden School Scheduled At A&M College
The first Game Warden School in
Texas associated with an institution
of higher learning is to be placed in
operation Feb. 4, 1946, at the Agri-
cultural and Mechanical College of
Texas under the joint auspices of the
Texas Game, Fish and Oyster Com-
mission and the Department of Fish
and Game at the College, it was an-
nounced by Dr. W. B. Davis, acting
head of the department.
As planned, the school will operate
for one semester of four months.
Candidates will be selected by the
Commission from applications filed
with it. The course of study will in-
clude wildlife conservation and man-
agement, fish conservation and man-
agement, natural history of the verte-
brates including fish, frogs, reptiles,
birds, and mammals, game and fish
laws and law enforcement, public
speaking, public relations, and report
writing. Most of these courses will
carry credit that will count toward
a college degree if individuals decide
to further their education. This nec-
essitates that candidates be high
school graduates and meet college
entrance requirements, or, in some
instances, they may enter under
Navy Double Talk
college provisions as special students, f i * K
in which case no college credits will camne-
be allowed.
Members of the staffs of the de-
partments of English, Agricultural
Education, and Fish and Game of the
College, and a representative of the
Game Commission will collaborate in
the instructional phases of the pro-
gram.
Enrollment in the first school will
he limited to thirty. Those who sat-
isfactorily complete the program of
training will be placed on the eligible
list from which vacancies in the Tex-
as game warden force will be selected.
During the past five years several
million young Americans have join-
ed the Navy and have learned
Navy talk. Now they are coming
back to civilian life and again must
learn civilian talk.
Here are a few things that the ex-
sailors must again leam:
Deck— 52 playing cards.
Head—The part of a nail yau ham-
mer on.
Line—A sales talk that you give to
a girl.
Sheet—A civilian sack.
Yard—Attached to a house and
needs raking constantly.
Flat Top—A deceased Dick Tracy
character.
Bureau Change—When someone
moves the bedroom furniture.
Sweat—To prespire.
Liberty—The name of the statute
in New York harbor.
Sack—A paper receptacle for gro-
ceries, etc.
Time Clock—A civilian mechanical
muster.
Abiting permit for a
Report—A loud noise.
Quarters—Four to the dollar.
Mess—Something you have to clean
up.
Chow—A dog with long fur.
Lucky Bag— A victory girl who
gets a husband.
Attention—What married men pay
to everyone but their wives.
Chow—Adog with lots of fur.
Record Growth Seen
For Legion Baseball
November Rig Month
For Home Building
Blow On Head Is Fatal
To Cole Hays Child, 2
The two-year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cole Hays, who reside about
five miles southeast of Grand Saline
died last week from a skull fracture
suffered in a fall against a table.
The child was playing about the house
when he ran against the taj le.
AUSTIN—Despite a shortage of
material, home building in Texas had
its biggest month in November since
May, 1944, the Texas Contractor re-
ported this week.
Of the $28,928,431 in building con-
tracts reported to the magazine for
the month, $2,983,023 was for homes.
The largest previous ampunt for the
same item was $4,000,000 in May last
year.
With restrictions lifted by the gov-
ernment, $1,503,733 was spent for
homes costing more than $5,000.
There were 191 of these units. The
one-family dwellings, or small homes,
totaled $10,46,500 for 299 contracts.
Twenty-two apartments, totaling
183 family units, cost $385,750.
American Legion Junior Base.'all
will have a record expansion in 1946,
according to the prediction of R.
Worth Shumaker, acting director of
the Americanism Commission under
which this youth-training activity is
placed.
More than 16,000 junior, junior-
junior and cub baseball teams par-
ticipated in the 1945 program, Shu-
maker said. Approximately 5,000
teams competed in the nation-wide
tournament.
Since inauguration of the program
in 1926, an estimated eight million
boys have participated in this Legion
activity. War penalized the program
which has caused Shumaker to predict
the great expansion in the postwar
period.
Pfc. Iat Roy Land returned to San
Francisco, Saturday after spending
a 21-day furlough with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Land.
BEST WISHES
X
TO GRAND SALINE
AND ITS SALT INDUSTRY
We wish to extend our best wishes to the neighboring city
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of Grand Saline on its centennial celebration of salt produc-
tion. A cemury of ever-upwaru progress, betterment is the
envy of all. We are proud to be so closely associated with you,
Grand Saline.
For those who know their automoblies its—
C H E VB 0 IE T
Those who know their automobiles have always found
CHEVROLET a car with longer and better jferforrjiance, fewer
mechanical difficulties, and ever-lasting comfort. When you
buy your next car, go CHEVROLET, because it’ll pay! !
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MOTOR COMPANY
MINEOLA
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Texas Memorial Museum Scenic Palace
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AUSTIN—Texas’ o*n Jack Rabbit
and the Quetzal, sac** bird of the
Astecs, are but two «ut of scores of
exhibit* which make o»e alcove of the
Texas Memorial M us tom at Austin
one of the most poptlar collections
with visiting Texas school childrai
and adults. ., „ .
Animals birds, reptiles, fish and
shells from Texas and the South-
wost hs well hs Latin Ail^nc&n coun-
tries arc 0,1 display on the third
floor, south alcove of the Museum.
Hundreds of Texas high school and
junior high schoolers v;|it the Texas
Memorial Museum each year, Dr. E.
H. Sellanls, director, reports, and be-
fore the war, they came by the bus-
“We are always delighted to have
school children visit the Museum, and
hope that more organized trips will
be made now that the war is over,”
One of the most carefully designed
exhibits in the entire museum, accord-
ing to Or. Sellards. is the large habi-
tat group which is an actual scene
from the Davis Mountains on the
Merrill Ranch near the old stage
coach marker west of frort Davis.
Against a background of volcanic
rocks of that region, there stands a
mountain lion guarding a doe while
three covotes crouch eagerly by,
waiting their turn at the victim.
Lining the walls of the room, which
is expertly lighted to create the il-
lusion of their natural settings, are
glass cases of Texas Shore birds,
Blue Quail from Zapata County, Nine-
Banded Armadillos with their young,
which are always identical twins,^Tex-
as ducks including the Green-Winged
Teal and the Pintail. All of these
exhibits are so cleverly arranged with
real and artificial grasses, rocks and
trees that it is difficult to determine
where the actual models leave off
and the skillfully painted backgrounds
begin.
In another case is a collection of
miscellaneous items, such as Wood-
peckers, Prairie Chickens, King Fish-
ers, Roadruimcrs, Blue Gosbeaks,
Western Mockingbirds, Cardinals and
a Groove-billed Ani, a member of the
Cookoo family.
Stretched along the wall is the 18-
foot skin of a Boa constrictor which
always attracts considerable atten-
tion from school students, Dr. Sell-
ards commented.
Another group consists of the
Mexican guana, the Gila Monster,
found in Arizona and Mexico, a young
American crocodile and a young A-
merican alligator. Not far from the
Texas Jack Rabbit is perched a Long
Tailed Texas Skunk, which is of the
Weasel family, and a 30-pound Red
or Red Drum fish such as is common-
ly found in the Gulf waters.
A Laughing Gull, White-fronted
Goose, Wilson Snipe, a (beautiful
Golden Eagle, owls of all types, and
Red-tailed Hawks fill another case.
In the glass covered tables is an
outstanding collection of shells such
as the East Indian Clam, the Pearl
Oyster, the Queen. Conch, the type
children listen to hear “the roar of
the waives," and the delicately colored
Chambered Nautilus. There is a col-
lection of shells from the Texas
coasts, including oysters, Angel Wing
Shells and the Fan Shell.
Visiting hours at the Museum are
from 10 to 12 and 2 to 6 daily except
Sunday, when the Museum is open
only from 2 to 5 o’clock. ’
1
Hulin Smith, Seaman 2/c of the
U. S. Navy, San Diego, Calif., visi-
ted with his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Smith last week.
TYPEWRITER Ribbons. 75 cents. 1
Sun Office.
HATS OFF!
THE
ALL
SALT INDUSTRY AND
ITS WORKERS ____
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Your community plumber-wishes to extend
to the salt industry and all its employees the
fullest congratulations on the centennary of
salt production. /
We are always pt your command fpr plumb-
ing troubles, and always ready to install any
new pipes and dumbing wfcitm you might
need.
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H. B. MILLER
& SONS
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V I V givfs the |reen light
1 Padfif otx
board flips
signp nodi
"The Texas and Padfif operator sitting before'
Traffic Control) board flips a tiny lever and the
on the wayside signfl notifying the engineer t
or he may receive a signal to take the aiding at die next passing
trade to let the Eas^>«ind^K*spe»A(l^-
"Indicator lights on ttfeswitdi board shfw die operator the position
of each train in his aectiof*—and waytade. signal lights give the
engineer his instructions; they tnl him whether to stop, proceed
with caution or keep going fu^ speed giead. r
"This well-nigh foolproof CfC system opens and doses switches,
sets signals, keeps the traiiJ moving ftafely and swiftly at almost
double-track effidency—all/one by ed operator lipping a day lever.
"The postwar plans of tbf Texas add Pacific Railway are now in
progress—preparing for /be people of the growing Southwest the
finest in transportation, J 9
"Your constructive criddlms a*d suggestions are earnestly solidted.”
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W. G. VOLLMER,
President.
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Buzbee, Byron B. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 1945, newspaper, December 13, 1945; Grand Saline, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1003985/m1/4/?q=wichita+falls: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Van Zandt County Library.