The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 23, 1959 Page: 1 of 12
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Markets
■ale »t the Mill*
company
increase ln num*
%■( Friday With a
TtMi head •flUni1
^Monday or «“•
a large increase
. oI bead from la*t
. wtal ot 3,500 head
the auction
^minion company
two gale day* per
*Uing on Mon-
aeep on Fridays,
prices were variable
jaep and goat* at the
thii week
SHEEP
Ik to 20V»c; stock-
ist to 10c; yearling
‘1Jc to 17c; yearling
to $17 per head: old
to g^c; old buck*,
,locker ewes, $10 to
ptid; ewes and lamb*,
per pair.
(Oat Of Hair)
ton goats, $8 to $11
weighing kind, 9c to
nannies, $8 to $10
► cull nannies. 6c to 8c;
and kids, $10 to $14
8—PER DOZ.
t receipt eggs were llat-
thls week.
t 45c per pound.
gS—PER LB.
5c; Hens, 8c.
caalc
AND THE MULLIN ENTERPRISE
VOL. 85 NO. 45
Elephant
Results
ed Good
white - elephant sale
as held last Saturday
for the benefit of re-
btedness on the new
building has been de-
snccess by members of
and Lions Club who
‘red the event.
Campbell, chairman
committee who had
of the sale, said thl*
t approximately $450
A from the auction
er $300 from the con-
fer the organ give-
made a total of ap-
'ly $750 realised to-
debt of $1500. Some
contributions have
tor the building fund
s balance of approxl-
$500
said that offictala of
nlations are well
with the response and
from the public and
with the result*,
which was given
the sale went to
ridge.
Mrs. Jamie Brown
J»y after spending
J» here with relatives
d» while en rout* from
to California, where he
boned with the Unit-
ary
GOLDTHWAITE, MILLS COUNTY, TEXAS
SINOLE COPY, 10*
THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1958
Report On Sales, Incentive Payments,
Prices For Wool Marketed During 1957
Mills County Ranks High In
YEARBOOK EDITOR—Peggy Blackwell, daughter of Mr and Mrs
Hollis Blackwell, has been'elected yearbook editor at the Univers-
ity of Wyoming. Miss Blackwell who is a junior ln the university
will edit the yearbook during her senior year University of Wyom-
ing student publications lor 1959-60 will be headed by. left to
right, Dennis O'Farrell, Rock Springs, who wlU adit the Dude, so-
cial caierdar-freshman orientation booklet; Miss Blackwell, Oold-
thWaite, WYO editor; Sandra Faus, Glendive, Montana, Branding
Iron editor; and Mickey Anderson. Sheridan, directory editor.
—(UW Photo •
Lions Move To
Legion Building
For Next Meeting
Members of the Lions Clpb
voted Tuesday night at th«r
regular meeting to move to the
new Legion building for their
next meeting on May 5. The
club ha* been making plans for
some time to make the Legion
building it* permanent home.
The dinner for this next
meeting will be prepared and
served by C. D -McLean and
staff of McLean Restaurant.
A foods committee was ap-
pointed to work on permanent
arrangements for meals to be
served to the club ln the new
home. Serving on this commit-
tee are Lewis T. Hudson, Jesse
Moreland and Raymond Sum-
my.
A report was made that all
equipment for furnishing the
Legion kitchen and hall has
arrived and the club ha* in-
voices for same. This equipment
has been purchased by the Lions
Club aince members voted to
sponsor the project.
Chairman W. P. Duren reports
that contributions have been
coming in for the kitchen fund
but the fund is still several hun-
dred dollars short of the goal.
Cub Leaders’
Training Course
Here Saturday
A county-wide Cub Leaders’
'raining program is scheduled
here at the First Methodist
Church this Saturday, it w^s
announced Tuesday.
The six hour training pro-
gram for South Central District
cub leaders will start at 1 p. m.
It will be in two sessions, one
from 1 to 5 p. m. and the sec-
ond from 6 to 8 p. m„ with an
hour out for dinner.
This is a national approved
course for Cub leaders and *11
Cub workers are urged to take
part These workers Include:
Cub Committee members, Cub
Masters, Den mothers. Den
chiefs and Dennera.
Charles Conradt Is chairman
of the South Central District
Cub training program and has
assisting him A. E Lamb. Mar-
vin Moon and E. A, Newton of
Brownwood.
Since the program is county-
wide, the appeal goes also to
Cub leaders of Star. Priddy and
Mullln to attend this training
program Saturday
SjTATE CAPITAL
Hiqhliqhi'S
Sideliqhts
AND
hu Verm Sanford
TFXAS PRISS ASSOCIATION
Austin, Texas — With Just
about three week* left in the
regular session, legislators will
be under much pressure—to do
many things and do them fast.
Each day that passes without
agreement on financial matters
heightens the possibility of a
special session as soon as this
one ends.
Many measures will me tram-
pled under or pushed aside until
61. But as Speaker Waggoner
Carr told the House, the prob-
lem of raising some new money
“won t go away. It has to be
faced.”
No Easy Out—Like every oth-
er tax proposal made this ses-
sion, the huge ‘‘something for
everybody" omnibus tax bill re-
commended by the House Tax
Committee brought howls of
protest.
It would raise an, estimated
$151,01)0.000 a year by raising
some old taxes and placing new
taxes on hundreds of items.
Tabbed for Increases are nat-
ural gas, motor vehicles, cigar-
ettes, liquor, wine, beer licenses.
New targets include hotel
rooms restaurant meals, cigars,
chewing tobacco, snuff, aircraft
and auto parts, dozen* of luxury
items (Jewelry fur*, camera*,
watches, sliver, etc.), radio and
TV parts, business machines,
commercial rentals, club dues,
construction materials, dance
studios, reducing salons.
Officially, the bill Is known
as the Tax Committee substitute
for H B 727 Unofficially, It's
called a lot of other things.
House members showed no
more eagerness to rally behind
this broad-based approach than
they had for Oov Price Daniel’s
less ‘‘spread out” plan.
Give Little, Take Little—'Two
appropriations bills of varying
Shearing And Preparation Demonstration
Be Conducted At Loyd King Ranch Monday
Bureau Drive
* Meeting
WUy Night
- County Farm Bu-
^ *UU going on ac-
*2 I* Utvlted to attend on a
m L. ^ imtlwMiaml anNaHiila nrr
£*5** •• new
Jr™* up. which
1T >1* member,
here.
. jUh supper was
night at the
a total
guests pres-
Actlon.-'^1 fUm’
^ on
A demonstration showing a grower, warehouseman, buyers
good or proper commercial JobH
of wool shearing and prepara-
tion will be conducted Monday.
April 27, at the Loyd King
ranch aouth of Ooldthwalte
It will be an aL day affair
and everyone in Mills County
IfaM, Qn a come
their
Individual schedule or program
of work.
and the Industry In general
Principal aim of the demon-
stration is for the grower to
see and realise the value of
shearing and preparing wool In
the best possible way to Insure
maximum benefits The grower
of wool la the one who will ben-
efit in the long run through
better wool shearing and prep-
aration methods.
The demonstration 1* being Mtc»: r4KHE<te
I Ttwre .Hi b, r» »**«■.
i. *° *n who a" °n h*n,,
program "‘.£h**£ *»“> D,nn"
for Mills
source of Industry
County.
It la sponsored by
U Wool and
and
through the cooperation of Loyd
is an above average
flock of sheep for
will be served at 12 noon
M
In the program
ho ll vitally Interested and
H la hie desire to aee wool put
oaatbie way for
Hollis **V E. E. WAKKOM TO
Mohair M GUEST SPEAKER AT
c"ondueled! DOWNTOWN BIBLE CLASS
Rev Kmmlt F Waakom. pas-
tor of the Church of the Nas-
erene. will be guest speaker, at
the Men * Downtown Bible Class
next Sunday All men who do
not go to Sunday School else-
where. are cordially Invited to
attend •
Tied Up
With Bill* 7
Let The Eagle
Want Ada bail yea eat!
• around
they as
Everyone ha* Itei
the bouse which
longer need. If
one ohw wunU them. Why
waMf Move 'em Ml of the
way and got eutm eneh at
the same Ume!
alzes have been passed by the
House and 8enate. Differences
will be adjusted by a conference
committee of members from the
two houses.
Both bills call for spending
nearly $2,500,000,000 during the
next two years. House bill is
slightly larger. It calls for ap-
proximately $333,000,000 from
general revenue. Senate would
spend only $307,000,000 ln gen-
eral revenue.
To satisfy both houses, the
conference committee will try to
reach a compromise between
these two figures. However It’s
worked out, it's already clear
that spending will considerably
exceed the $281,000,000 spent
from general revenue fund for
1958-59.
Rough Sledding — Oovernor
Daniel’s "abandoned property
act” barely squeaked by Its first
teat on the House floor by a
71-69 vote.
Measure would allow the state
to take over money and prop-
erty unclaimed for seven years
or more. Estimates of how much
It would bring ln immediately
range from $20,000,000 to $50,-
000,000.
Many banker* fear such a law
would cause people to be afraid
to put their money ln banks and
decide to stick It ln a sock In-
stead.
Backers of the measure say
the banks and other businesses
are holding and getting the
benefit of property that does
not belong to them, should be
used to benefit all the people.
Co-op Bill Shunted Aside—A
bill to allow rural electric co-ops
more “elbow room” has been
sent to the Attorney General for
an opinion.
Rep. Alonzo Jamison of Den-
ton, sponsor, protested to the
House State Affairs Committee
that this would kill the bill.
This late In the session, delay
Is usually fatal.
Highly controversial, the bill
would allow co-ops to add new
eustomers after the area of
their tines Is Annexed to a city.
Advertising Bill Advances—A
state-financed advertising pro-
gram for Texas moved close to
final enactment despite heated
opposition from an advertising
man In the Senate.
(Continued on Back Page)
Wool Sold Under Incentive Pay
By GEORGE G. REESE
County Agent
A new bulletin published by
the Texas Agricultural Experi-
ment station showing sales, In-
centive payments and prices for
Texas wool for the 1957 mark-
eting year, reports Mills County
near the top.
Mills County ranks 7th, ln
Little League
Meeting To Be
This Friday Night
A Little League and Pony
League meeting has been called
for this Friday night at 7 o’clock
at McLean Restaurant.
Charles Conradt, president of
the organization, stated that
only a token few turned out for
the meeting last Friday night
and no election of officers was
held.
Officials point out that this
Involves 100 or more Mills Coun-
ty boys and some leaders
are needed to sponsor this pro-
gram and supervise It for the
summer season
The Little and Pony League
program Includes Ooldthwalte,
Star. Mullln and Priddy.
There Is urgent need for man-
agers. and other adults to take
charge of the program for this
coming season.
Plans will be made Friday
night for the season’s schedule
of activities.
Senator Louis Crump
To Be Speaker At
Graduation Exercises
Louis Crump, of San Saba.
Texas Senator of District Six-
teen, has accepted an Invitation
to be guest speaker at Commen-
cement Exercises for the Oold-
thwaite Senior Class of 1959.
The exercises will be held in the
high school auditorium on May
28. 1959 at 8:00 p m., accord-
ing to announcement by Supt
J. T. Jones.
The class this year Is com-
posed of twenty-two members,
thus being one of the smallest
ciames of recent years.
total pounds of shorn wool on
which incentive payments were
made, with a total of 611,884
pounds. The average price per
pound before Incentive pay-
ment was 62.7 cents. The aver-
age price per pound Including
Incentive payment was 71.4
cents In the price per pound
received by the 488' producers
receiving Incentive payments.
Mills County ranks 3rd ln the
state. The other counties that
ranked 1st and 2nd received
72.4 and 72.3 cents per pound.
These figures show that Mills
County producers received pri-
ces for their wool that were ln
the top bracket.
The average price received for
wool ln Texas ln 1957 before In-
centive payments was 58.8 cents
per pound; the incentive pay-
ment averaged 7.8 cents per
pound, making a total of 64.6
cents.
Wide variations ln prices paid
existed among Texas counties.
In 1957. the lowest average price,
including Incentive payment,
was near 30 cents per pound
and the highest near 72 cents
per pound These variations ex-
ist for several reasons. The most
Important of these are differ-
ences in shrinkage, the quality
of wool and the amount and
type of vegetable matter pres-
ent. The most important of the
quality factors affecting prices
are fineness and length of sta-
ple. Differences ln price were
also noted when sales were
completed at different times of
the year The latter was a very
Important factor In 1957.
Only 57 per cent or slightly
more than half, of the wool
produced ln Texas, was report-
ed for incentive payments dur-
ing the 1957 marketing year.
The remaining 43 per cent was
not sold primarily because of
an unfavorable market and was
carried Into the 1958 marketing
year,
Texas wool growers received
rllghtly less than $2,000,000
through the incentive payment
on shorn wool for the 1957 mar-
keting year.
Mills County producers re-
ceived $436,761 14 In gross sales
for their wool In 1957
-0-——
vVeather Report
Mrs. Frankie Tyson
granddaughter, Deborah Rayr
Staggs, daughter ot 8gt. and
Mrs. Harley Staggs, have re-
turned to Lake Charles, after a
week’s visit with Mrs. Nick Orbs
and family.
r
Rainfall recorded here during
the past weekend measured .41
and inch. This brings the total for
the month to 2.27 inches.
. Frost was reported on two
mornings during the past week.
Cold weather has held up the
spring growing season consider-
ably to date.
Sears Swine Program For 1959
The Sears swine program .who have not been previous
will be ln operation in Mills
County In 1958. This program
started in Mill* County In 1948
and each year five registered
Duroc gilt* and one registered
Du roc boar pig have been a-
warded to six 4-H club mem-
bers.
In order to qualify for one ot
these pigs, the 4-H Club member
will write and submit an essay
entitled, "The Value of Produc-
ing Hof* aa a Source of Cash
Income on our Farm ” The es-
say to have net more than 500
words.
The oooteot is open Be all 4-H
Club members In this county
winner*
All essays must be in the
hands of the county agent by
May 10. and must be written on
notebook paper, typed or In Ink
Pigs will be awarded as prises
on the basis of 40 per cent for
best essay showing knowledge
and information the contestant
show In the fall as breeding
gilt* and Sears will award
prises.
Awards will be given for the
heaviest Utters at 54 days of age
In each stare ares.
The first prise gilt and the
boar from this county will be
brought to Brownwood for the
area show and Sears will award
has on the subject, and 60 per the prises.
cent upon hi* faculties and abll- j The County Agent will select
tty to successfully complete the ; one gUt pig out of the first Itt-
demonatratton
Each essay must
be accomp-
anted by an agree
ment blank
signed by the con
teetant and
parent.
The pigs wtU be
returned to
ter for the payment of the gilt
and this pig will be awarded to
a 4-H Club member for U^e 1000
it blanks can be se-
ttle County Agent
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Koleber, Victor E. The Goldthwaite Eagle (Goldthwaite, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 23, 1959, newspaper, April 23, 1959; Goldthwaite, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1059872/m1/1/?q=lumber+does+its+stuff: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Jennie Trent Dew Library.