The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 22, 1952 Page: 4 of 4
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Page Four Friday, August 22, 1952.
The Harper Herald -- Harper, Texas
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^ by HUGH WILLIAMSON
GRAND CHAMPION JERSEY
FEMALE—of the 64th Gilles-
pie. Fair was exhibited by Allan
Hagel, 16-year-old FFA youth
-Staff photo
and son of Mr. and Mrs. Ben C.
Hagel.
This Year's Drouth Is Seen
As One Of Worst in History
You can take down the old oak-
en bucket, ma, the well’s agoin’
dry.
That’s no joke — it’s a cry of
disaster — to Texas farmers and
ranchers
Their wells and streams are
drying up. Their ranges are burn-
ing yellow under the brassy sun.
Cattle and sheep are thirsty and
hunrgy and losing weight. Cotton
bolls are popping open too soon.
Other crops, like corn, are wilt-
ing.
Texas, along with the rest of
the Southwest, is sweating out
what may be one of the worst
eight drouths since the 13th Cen-
tury. That’s what the Interior De-
partment called it as long ago as
last March.
This gives Louis P. Merrill, re-
gional director of the U S. Soil
Conservation Service, a small
laugh, however,
BETTER INFO
“They must have better infor-
mation than we have,” he said
Friday. “Our records don’t go
back that far.”
But Merrill isn't trying to
laugh off the drouth. “It’s the
worst since the 1917-18 drought,”
he said. “Next, it may turn out to
be worse than the drouth of
1886.”
“Some areas of West Texas
..have been in a state of droilth
for seven years.” he said. “For
the Southwest as a whole, this
drouth has been hanging on for a-
bout 25 months.”
Field representatives of the
Farmers Home Admisistration
met in Dallas this week.
The FHA announced at the
meeting that it will help drouth-
stricken farmers with loans for
feed, groceries, fuel, and repairs
to equipment.
The field representatives point-
ed out that because most of
1952’s rains have been spotty, pat-
ches of good crops can be found
even in the worst areas.
CROPS RUINED
But North Texas counties like
Parker, Eastland, Callahan,
Young and Stephens have written
off the bulk of their crops. Ran-
chers in Throckmorton, and
other counties, are shipping their
cattle north or selling them.
In the Rio Grande vally, the
FHA men were told, citrus far-
mers can’t get, enough moisture
to fight back all the way from a
disastrous freeze in 1949.
Department of Agriculture ex-
perts said they could find hope
for good cotton crops only in the
high plains, where irrigation
gave farmers an excellent chance.
R. L. Thomas, a member of
the Texas State Teachers College
Board of Regents, says dry
weather is keeping farm students
at home. Their folks can’t make
enough money off withered crops
to send them to school.
LAMB LOSS HIGH
Sheep apparently were in worse
shape than cattle on Texas ran-
ches. Lamb losses were high last
Record Set y
Seguin HoLtein
A state production record has
been made by a registered Hol-
stein-Friesian cow owned by Ed-
No Democratic Run-Off
Primary in Gillespie Co.
County Democratic chairman
Tom Schmidt this week announc-
ed that there will be no democra-
tic run-off primary Saturday in
mund Campbell, Seguin, accord-1 Gillespie County
NOW!
The schoolboy, as well as
mother, appreciates the
rugged school-wear at
Siehling's. Our khakis &
blue jeans can take the
punishment that active
boys give them. We're
ready with a complete
showing of everything
son needs for school-
wear.
Blue Jeans, Bull-dogger
and Conro make - - - - $2.15
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Blue Jeans, Gene Autrys - $2.25
Blue Jeans, Dickie’s 11 oz. - $2.98
Famous Levis - - $3.25 to $3.75
Genuine Mods
Tennis Shoes - - from $2.95
Short sleeve Tom Sawyer
Sport Shirts ----- $1.39
Khaki Shirts, Dickie quality $2.65
Sky-Rider all-leather Oxfords 6.45
Fancy Cotton Anklets - 35c to 50c
Smart boys suits and slacks, too,
STEHLING BROS.
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Austin, Tex., Aug 18 — We can
well imaging that Gov. Adlai
Stevenson is worried no little
about the tidelands questions that
have been placed before him by
Price Daniel and Allan Shivers
of Texas
Texas gets millions of dollars a
year in tax revenue from oil pro-
duced out of submerged lands.
The money goes to public educa-
tion.
Now the federal government
has claimed those lands under a
policy called “paramount rights.”
Congress passed a bill clearing
the states’ titles to the lands, and
President Truman vetoed that
bill.
Now Texas—along with Louisi-
ana and California, want to know
what Governor Stevenson would
do about such a bill if he should
become president of the United
States.
Governor Shivers has plainly
stated that he will not support
Stevenson for president if the
Democratic nominee does not
come out for state control of the
tidelands.
Attorney General Price Daniel
has asked Stevenson to answer
some very specific questions
along that line.
Stevenson’s trouble is that he
is more or less on record as fav-
oring federal government control
cf the lands. He indicated such a
stand at the governor’s confer-
ence at Houston.
If he makes that his positive
stand, he will lose much Texas
support— and also many votes
in the other Southern states that
are opposed to Truman’s admin-
istration and his policies.
On the other hand, if Steven-
son says he is for state control
of the tidelands, he is going to
be in dutch with the President
and other administration and
party loaders to whom he must
look for help in order to be
elected.
In his letter to Governor Stev-
enson, Daniel pointed out that
Stevenson’s- own state of Illi-
nois claims title to thousands of
acres of submerged land under
Lake Michigan,
“Your state of Illinois has not
yet been sued,” Daniel comment-
ed, “but there is no escape from
the fact that the 976,640 acres
claimed by your state beneath
the waters of Lake Michigan are
in the same position as the sub-
merged lands within the seaward
boundaries of the coastal states,
and that the Federal Government
will take this property from your
state under the same theory of
law unless Congress acts to pre-
vent it.”
The Texas attorney general
pointed out that in addition to
Congress, the following national
organizations believe ownership
of the tidelands should revert to
the states:
The council of State Govern-
ments, the Governors Con-
ference, the National Association
of Attorneys General, the Nation-
al Association of Public Land Of-
ficials, the National Association
oi County Officials, the National
Conference of Mayors, the Ameri-
can Association of Port Authori-
ties, the American Bar Associa-
tion, the American Title Associa-
tion, the U. S. Chamber of Com
merce, the U. S. Junior Chamber
of Commerce, the National Water
Conservation Association, the
American Municipal Association,
and the National Institute of
[Municipal Law Officers.
Daniel and others have observ-
ed that under the same theory of
“paramount rights” the federal
government could seize owner-
ship of private lands, as well as
state lands, without compensa-
tion.
In other words, if the federal
government is correct, then it has
the power to grab your farm and
your home, take them over for
government use, and pay you
nothing.
-ooo-
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Fowler of
San Antonio spent the week-end
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Gammenthaler. Their son,
Charles Allen, who spent the
summer in Harper accompanied
his parents home.
ing to the Holstein-Friesian Aa-
sociation of America.
Countess Pohlcrest Chieftain is
the new champion, taking the
lead for all Texas’ Holsteins,
regardless of age- milked two
times daily in the 10 month divi-
sion, with the production of 625
pounds of butterfat from 18,271
pounds of milk.
Another registered Holstein-
Friesian cow owned by Campbell
has completed a 259-day produc-
tion test in the official Herd Im-
provement registry.
This was milked twice daily,
and was 4 years and 9 months of
age when she began her testing
period. Her record averages ap-
proximately 21 quarts of milk
daily for the period covered by
her test
Testing in both instances was
supervised by Texas A, & Mr col-
lege, in co-operation with the
Holstein-Friesian assn.—San An-
tonio Light, Aug. 15, 1952.
Only one race is slated for a
place on the State supreme court
between two judges, Judge Spur- j
geon Bell of Houston, Harris
County, and Judge Frank P. Cul-'
ver of Tarrant County, Ft. Worth
No other ^un-off elections were
made necessary as a result of the j
July primary.
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Friends will regret to learn of
Mrs. Bill Dees, formerly Madge
Whitewood, being vepr ill in a
Fredericksburg hospital. Mrs.
Dees underwent an emergency j
operation Thursday.
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St. Johns River in Florida
flows in a northerly direction.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dean Hopf and
children left Friday for a trip
through Colorado and other plac-
es of interest. They were joined
by Mrs. Zelma Hopf -of Chicago.
-ooo-
Mrs. Ida Smith celebrated her
birthday anniversary Sunday at
her home in Harper. Her son,
Jack Smith, and family of -Se-
guin and other relatives enjoyed
the occasion.
DANCE
SaSwardaYf August 23rd
Klein's Hall
Spring Creek
Fredericksburg-Harper Highway
— Music by —.
"Hill Country Boys”
Phone 4331 for Reservation
Everybody Welcome!
--Baysnond Klein
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GOING TO THE FAIR — for
their first time here were Mr.
and Mrs.. J. C. Oswald and child-
ren of Mason and Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur Willmann ad children of
Clifton, Texas. In the picture a-
bove they are seen as they enter-
ed the Gillespie County Fair
Grounds Saturday afternoon. Mr.
Oswald is pushing the two-seated
stroller while Mrs. Willmann is
holding Bonnie, 9 months old
twin sister of Johnnie who is in
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—S taff photo
Deborah, age
the stroller with
2V2 years.. Mrs. Willmann and
Mrs. Oswald are seen to the right
of the men with little Norma
Willmann, age 4, in the center
and Milton Willmann, age 2, be-
ing held by Mr. Willmann. In
the background, between Mrs.
Willmann and Mrs. Oswald are
Mr. and Mrs. Cabajal of Freder-
icksburg who also took in the
fair Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McDonald
of Kerrville visited Mrs. Marria
Calentine and Mrs. P. O. Bode at
Harper Saturday.
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Mrs. Lula Roberts is spending
the week with Mr. and Mrs.
Creighton Stevens, and family in
San Antonio.
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Stubfield
and C. E. Bein of Sonora spent
the week-end at Harper and
attended the fair.
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Mrs. J. O. Stovall of , Willow
City is visiting her daughter,
Mrs. Fred Bierschwale, and fam-
ily for a couple of weeks.
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Gold In The Windows
By F. W. Radetzky
Mason, Texas
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spring, with practically no feed
on their ranges. The Agriculture
Department reported lambs were
“stunted and pot-bellied” because
they weren’t getting enough
milk.
The 1952 Texas lamb crop was
estimated at 2,364,000 head — 10
per cent smaller than last year’s
crop and the smallest lamb crop
since 1935.
Dehydrated cattle were shrink-
ing in West Texas, where the
grass was not only dry but short.
In eastern and upper costal coun-
ties, however, cattle were carry-
ing good gains this month.
The U. S. Agriculture Depart-
ment recently took a look at its
July corn crop estimate and whit-
tled it down by more than 2,000,-
000 bushels. In July, the estimate
was for 39,117,000 bushels. In Au-
gust, it was 36,816,000. The
drouth could cut the actual yield
even lower.
Rice, grain sorghums and clo-
ver are other crops hard-hit by
the fiery sun.
The condition of famed Co-
manche Springs is a sympton of
the drouth in the West Texas
area around Ft. Stockton, Pecos
and Balmorhea.
The springs once flowed a-
round 30,000,000 barrels of wa-
ter a day in the James Rooney
Memorial Park. Now the swim-
ming pool it used to feed holds
only moss, stagnant water and a
loi of minnows.
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When I suddenly there saw a
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The sun ’bout to peep o’er the
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To my eyes invisible still—•
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Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Casper of
Fredericksburg were in Harper
Tuesday to attend the funeral of
Mrs. Wesley Sageser.
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Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Coffey
visited their son, Ralston, and
family. The occasion being Mr.
Coffey’s and the granddaughters
birthday anniversary.
Mrs. Lon Whetstone accompan-
ied her daughter, Mrs. D. L. To-
bias, to Houston to spend sever-
al weeks visiting the Tobias fam-
ily.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Parker and
daughter visited Mr. and Mrs.
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