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VOL. 33
CRYSTAL CITY, ZAVALA COUNTY, TEXAS, MAY 26, 1944
No. 5
County Agent’s
Column
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JACK ADAMS
HOME STORAGE OF
VEGETABLES
Victory gardeners often do a good
job of growing a garden and then
have a bitter disappointment because
their products did not keep in stor-
age. Following are some Victory
garden reminders prepared by the
Extension Horticulturist that are
well worth following.
V Let Potatoes Mature Before
They Are Dug
Potatoes can be dug before the tops
die, but they should be mature if
they are to keep properly. To check
maturity, press the thumb against
the skin of a few of the potatoes. If
the skin is tough and does not break
easily, the crop may be harvested.
In areas where excessive rainfall has
occurred a short time before harvest,
water blisters (small elevated white
spots) are likely to form on the skin.
Delay harvesting until the blisters
have dried. If harvesting is done
while the potatoes are blistery or
sappy, heavy losses by rotting may
occur.
Use Care in Handling
Potatoes should not be handled
like stacks of stovewood if they are
to keep. A turning plow or a middle
buster run 8 to 10 inches deep may
be used to dig the crop. Separate all
skinned or bruised potatoes from the
good ones. Use the skinned ones first.
If storage conditions are right, the
others will wait patiently foi^ their
turn on the table. Remember to
handle them almost as carefully as
you would an egg. As soon as the
potatoes are dug, place them in the
shade so they will not bilster.
Good Storage Conditions Are
Essential
A cool, well ventilated cellar is
satisfactory for potato storage, pro-
vided it has an overhead vent that
will allow the warm air and moisture
to escape. The door and overhead
vent should be opened at night and
closed during the day to keep the
interior cool. If out-buildings or the
area under the farm house are to be
used for storage purposes, cross ven-
tilation is essential. If exposed it
makes them undesirable for con-
sumption. Avoid spreading the po-
tatoes directly on the ground or
floor. Provide a slatted false floor
with at least four inches of air space.
Even willow poles or hay on which
the potatoes are spread will allow
the air to completely circle each po-
tato. Ventilation picks up the mois-
ture and keeps the potatoes dry,
which tends to reduce rot.
What Varieties Keep Best?
The Bliss Triumph variety is best
used as “new"’ potatoes. Irish Cob-
blers are preferable for storage. The
Katahdin variety is especially well
suited to storage, and has outstand-
ing keeping qualities. If this variety
is to be usual after digging, it is best
to let the potatoes cure for thirty
days before cooking, so that the tex-
ture of the potatoes will be firm. A
peculiarity of the Katahdin potato
is its tendency to make potatoes near
the surface of the ground. For this
reason, soil should be pulled up
around the plants at potato making
time, to prevent green discoloration.
Well grown, carefully harvested
Katahdin potatoes keep better in
storage and have better cooking
qualities than any other variety.
Onions
Right away your onions will be
ready to go in storage for winter use.
Before onions are harvested they
must be WELL ripened and thor-
oughly cured if they are to keep well
in storage. In selecting onions for
storage, select those where the tops
have ripened down or shriveled, and
be sure that the outer skin of the
bulb is dry before they are pulled.
Use “thick necks’’ immature, or soft
onions immediately as they do not
keep well. At harvest the onion tops
are clipped to one-half inch length.
They may be placed in crates or
open mesh sacks in the shade until
they are dried. Drying usually re-
quires five to seven days. Globe
type onions keep better than the flat
Bermuda type.
A few essentials in successful on-
ion storage ae:
1. Well matured and dried until
they rattle when handled.
2. Storage in open crates of not
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One Of Oldest
Businesses In Town
Changes Hands
The International Harvester Com-
pany line of merchandise has been
taken over by Irl Taylor through a
deal with Zavala Lumber Company.
For the present, at least, the busi-
ness will continue to be handled in
the machinery department of the Za-
vala Lumber Co.
The International Harvester Com-
pany has been handled :n Crystal
City since 1913, first by the Mayhew-
Isbell Lumber Company, then by the
Mayhew Lumber Company and con-
tinued by the Zavala Lumber Com-
pany. Irl Taylor was in charge of the
line for this company for several
years.
This, therefore, is one of the oldest
businesses in Crystal City.
-WGD-
Tex. Farm War News
OPAL W. BEATY
Adm. Office Zavala County ACA
Greatly increased livestock num-
bers; reduced feed supplies; an ef-
fort to even the flow to packers; and
prevent uncontrolled glut; reduced
storage space; currently adequate
Army and Navy stockpiles, all are
factors in the latest move to ease
meat rationing.
Pork is about half of the total meat
supply. Pork production was at an
all-time high in 1943. The spring pig
crop was 57 percent over the 1935-39
average. The fall crop was 10 per-
cent over the 1942 all-time record.
Marketing of pork has been 50 per-
cent heavier than a year ago and
must continue heavier all summer if
hog numbers are to be brought into
line with feed supplies. The drop in
support prices on hogs from $13.75
to $12.50 per hundredweight, an-
nounced for September 30, is intend-
ed to encourage feeding hogs to
lighter weights, thus conserving
feed. With the spring pig crop at
least 18 percent under 1943, less pork
can be expected next winter.*
April 1, beef in storage totaled
about 296.4 million pounds, against
97.7 million pounds in 1943. There
are 23 percent fewer cattle in feed
lots in the 11 corn belt states than a
year ago. Greatly increased num-
bers of cattle on grass brings the dan-
ger of possible forage shortage in the
range such as brisket, flank steak
and stew meat.
Even under rationing, civilians
have been consuming more meat
than ever before. This year they
probably will get 140 pounds per
capita as compared with a 126-pound
yearly average 1935-39. In the first
three months of 1944, civilians have
been eating meat at an annual rate
of 158 pounds. Best estimates, based
on present incomes, are that civil-
ians, if they could, would buy at the
rate of 160-170 pounds per capita.
Lend-Lease takes about 10 percent
of our total meat supply—mostly
pork.
There were 82.2 million head of
catle on farms January 1, 1944, the
largest beginning of the year inven-
tory on record and 10 percent larger
than in 1943.
This tremendous cattle population
far exceeds the grazing capacity of
our ranges and pastures. A drought
would intensify this unfavorable sit-
uation.
Recent Department reports indi-
cate that on April 1, 1944, stocks of
feed grains on farms were almost 500
million bushels less than a year ago.
Former large stocks of feed supplies
are being rapidly depleted and un-
less substantial adjustment in live-
stock numbers is made food grain
supplies will be completely inade-
quate during the feeding year of
1944-45. The supply of protein feeds
will likewise be inadequate.
Adjusting livestock numbers to
within a fairly reasonable livestock
feed ratio will require the slaughter-
ing of not less than 35 million head
of cattle and calves which is approx-
imately 30 percent greater than the
27.3 million head slaughtered in 1943.
If the available slaughtering facili-
ties are to slaughter 35 million head,
it will be necessary to increase mar-
keting during the spring and summer
months.
The transportation situation can-
not be expected to improve and is
another good reason for more order-
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70-Year Olds to
Have Annual Picnic
For the eighth consecutive year
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Barker will be
hosts to the men of Zavala County
who are 70 years old and above at a
picnic at Riverside Park about two
miles south of Crystal City, next
Thursday, June 1st.
Mr. and Mrs. Barker are anxious
to have each and every man living
in Zavala county 70 years old and
over as their guest on this occasion.
They will provide transportation for
all who need it, and ask that those
who can to be at the post office be-
tween 9 and 10 o’clock next Thurs-
day morning. If you live in Crystal
City and do not have a way to get
to the post office, notify Mr. Barker
and he will get you anyway.
Mr. Barker says there will be
plenty to eat, including chicken and
dumplings, fried fish and maybe ice
cream and cake.
There were 34 present last year. Of
this number four have passed on to
a better world; however others have
become of age so Mr. Barker expects
about the same number this year.
---WCJD-
JESSE HIPP BUYS
ADAMS HOME
Mr .and Mrs. Jesse Hipp have
bought the cottage located at 615
West Uvalde Street of Misses Irene
and Ruth Adams and have moved
there to make their home.
Miss Irene Adams has gone to Car-
rizo Springs and will make her home
with her mother, Mrs. J. Q. Adams,
and Miss Ruth Adams who is a mem-
ber of the Carrizo Springs school fac-
ulty.
Mr. and Mrs. Hipp have had the in-
terior of the home redecorated and
also a new paint job outside, chang-
ing from ivory to all white.
-WGD--
GRAMMAR SCHOOL
HONOR ROLL
Crystal City Grammar School hon-
or Roll for the last six weeks of
school is as follows:
Grade One:
Robert Blackstone
Roy Davidson
Burrell Day
Herbie Wiley
Joyce Bookout
Barbara Dee Rutledge
Jeannine Fisher
Elaine Smith
Grade Two:
Virginia Ann Davidson
Clyde Greer
Judith Ann Guyler
Joan Owens
Jack Rutledge
Lamar Williams
Joann Wilmeth
------ Carl Gehe Zubef........
Grade Three:
Gary Clark
William H. Smither
Janey Lee Addison
Mary Ann Roznovsky
Grade Five:
Betty Wyn Oliver
David Lee Oden ,
Patricia Fly, Peggy Roesington.
Grade Seven:
Annie Lee Powell
Jeanette Stone
Sydney Parkinson
James Millan
Grade Eight:
Edward Beasley
James Carter
Bob Cy Tate
Raye E. Davidson
Mary Mount
-WGD-
CADET RICHMOND HARPER
RECEIVES WINGS
Cadet Richmond Harper son-in-
law of Mayor and Mrs. B. H. Holsom-
back, received his wings Tuesday,
May 23 at the graduation ceremonies
for the 16th class qf aviation cadets
of the Eagle Pass Army Air Field.
The ceremonies were held at the Post
Theater and the speaker for the oc-
casion was O. S. Harper, father of
Cadet Richmond Harper.
Mayor and Mrs. Holsomback and
their other daughters, Jeanette and
Karolene, the grandmother, Mrs. D.
M. Holsomback of Uvalde, Mr. and
Mrs. Steve Byrd of Winter Haven
and Postmaster and Mrs. J. R. Pipes
were present for the graduation.
Lt. and Mrs. Harper will remain
in Eagle Pass as he has been made
an instuctor at the Army Air Field.
Iii -WGD-
—HAV1J YOUR CAR INSURED.
Mrs. O’ L. Smith Insuranre Agen-
cy. tfc
American Legion
Holds Barbecue For
Regional Officer
Gus Ware Post of the American
Legion had a barbecue supper last
evening in honor of Regional Com-
mander Herman G. Nami and other
visitors from neighboring Posts.
The weather was threatening at
the time the supper was planned and
many, no doubt, who had planned to
attend, were kept away.
-WGD-
SENDS PURPLE HEART
TO MOTHER
Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Rutledge re-
ceived this week a letter dated May
17 from their son, Lt. Eugene Rut-
ledge, bomber pilot and now in Eng-
land, telling them he had been
wounded but was all right now and
able to be back in the service.
He is sending the Medal of the
Purple Heart awarded him for
wounds to his mother.
-WGD-
Spars Hold 22
Differnt Ratings
Twenty-two ratings are now au-
thorized for SPARS, members of the
U. S. Coast Guard Women’s reserve,
and almost every well-qualified girl
can find in SPARS an excellent op-
portunity for service in the war pro-
gram, stated Lieut, (jg) Annabel
Murray, SPAR recruiting officer for
Central and South Texas.
The last two ratings for which
SPARS have qualified are radio
technician and chaplain’s assistant.
Approximately one-fifth of the
SPARS on active duty are rated as
yeomen, the nautical term for secre-
taries and stenographers, and about
one tenth are rated as storekeepers,
assigned to officers of pay and sup-
ply.
Other ratings include: radioman,
pharmacist’s mate, boatswain’s mate,
gunner’s mate, motor machinist’s
mate, quartermaster, photographer’s
mate, parachute rigger, musician,
cook and baker and commissary
steward.
Specialist’s ratings are also given
to those in classification, transporta-
tion, business machines, mail, public
relations, recruiting, and link trainer
assignments and to engineering
draftsmen, switchboard operators,
visual aid technicians, and air control
operators.
Applicants do not need to be spe-
cialists in all ratings before enlisting;
if, they have- preliminary require-
ments for assignment to special
training schools they may be given
intensive courses to prepare them
for special training schools, they
may be given intensive courses to
prepare for special assignments as
secretaries, accountants, bookkeep-
ers, radio technicians cooks and ba-
kers and commissary stewards As
quotas are needed in other fields,
SPARS are assigned to special tam-
ing courses within those fields.
All SPARS receive their training
at the Coast Guard Training Station,
the former Biltmore Hotel, Palm
Beach, Florida, and the next classes
will convene May 22 and June 12.
On April 1, 6858 SPARS were as-
signed to active duty within the
United States. Approximately six
hundred are on duty at Coast Guard
Headquarters in Washington, and
more than half of the Washington
complement are petty officers.
Further information concerning
the SPAR Program and the qualifi-
cations for each rating may be ob-
tained by writing the SPAR Recruit-
ing Office, 401 Federal Building, San
Antonio, Texas.
An application blank will be sent
to all persons interested in SPARS. If
the applicant meets all preliminary
requiements she will be furnished
transportation for a round »rip to San
Antonio where she will be given the
personal interview, aptitude test, and
physical examination.
SPARS are urgenty needed to re-
place Coast Guardsmen at shore sta-
tions and to release them for fight-
ing duty at sea. SPARS wear the at-
tractive uniform designed by Main-
bocher, and they enjoy all the priv-
ileges and responsibilities given to
men of the United States Coast
Guard, America's oldest maritime
service, better known as America’s
First Fleet.
Business Houses To
Take Half Holiday
Beginning June 1
Beginning next Thursday, June 1,
business houses of Crystal City plan
to take a half holiday each week
through June, July and August
This was started in Crystal City
many years ago and for several
years this was the only town in this
area observing the weekly half hol-
iday; now, however, many of the
neighboring towns are doing it.
Uvalde has even gone us one better
end business houses there are to be
closed all day each Thursday during
t'le summer months.
-WGD-
MISS BETTY ZIMMERMAN
GRADUATE OF BAYLOR
UNIVERSITY
Rain And Wind
Wednesday Nite
Caused Damage
The rain Wednesday night was ac-
companied by a strong wind, doing
some damage locally to electirc
power lines and telephone lines. One
section of Crystal City was without
service until about 12 o’clock Thurs-
day. The Sentinel office is in this
area, so publication of the Sentinel
was delayed slightly Being without
electric service is quite unusual and
also inconvenient, but the personnel
of the company are to be commend-
ed for the prompt service n making
repairs.
It is understood that considerable
damage was done by tin- wind at
Carrizo Springs and also at Eagle
Pass. However, the benefits from the
good rainfall will far outweigh any
Miss Betty Zimmerman left Thurs-j damage done. The precipitation at
day morning to return to Waco j Crystal City was more than two
where she is a senior at Baylor Uni- ! inches.
versity. | Being without electric power all
On Monday, May 29, Miss Zimmer- [Thursday morning, we were not able
man will receive her degree in Bust to set any tvp(, so a fcw iUims we
ness Administration. She was accom-
panied to Waco by her parents, Mr
and Mrs. Ed Zimmerman who will be
present for her graduation. They
will return Monday night.
-WG1)--
CRYSTAL CITY BOY HELPS
GUARD NORTH AFRICA COAST
had in mind will be omitted or
passed to next week.
-WGD-
LA PRYOR GIRL GRADUATES
AT TSCff, AT DENTON
ALLIED FORCE HEADQUAR-
TERS, Mediterranean Theater -High
on bleak hilltops exposed to every
quirk of the elements, hidden among
the trees on hillsides, and in scat-
tered sites all along the coast of
Nqrth Africa, the soldiers of an
anti-aircraft unit are on a 24-hour
alert every day as they guard a vital
North African port against Nazi ‘‘hit
and run” raiders.
“Whever Jerry does come over to
interrupt our activities, he doesn’t
DENTON, Texas, May 22.—One
hundred ninety members of the
spring graduating class at Texas
State College for Women including
Joalice Louise Edwards of La Pryor,
have applied for degrees to be con-
ferred June 5. 9 a m in the college
auditorium. Twelve graduate stu-
dents are candidates for master of
art degrees.
Pres. L H. Hubbard is the tradi-
tional commencement speaker and
will confer degrees during the exer-
cises with the assistance of Dean E.
V. White and Dr. W. H Clark, head
I of the graduate school. The college
get very far, because the barrage we,
throw up at him usually makes most!muslc department will furnish music
for the program
The Baccalaureatee sermon will be
given June 4 at 11 a. m by Bishop
Eugene Cecil Seaman of Amarillo.
Other events of Commencement
Week include open house all day
of those raiders turn around and
head for home in a hurry,” say the
soldiers who man these guns.
A carefully planned program
keeps these soldiers busy every day.
There’s always gun drill, perfecting
their already expert defense against j Saturday (June 3) with a luncheon
daring raiders; or first-aid lectures; at noon fwr ex-students visiting the
or small arms firing, for all these campus and seniors and the Presi-
soldiers are experts in handling thej dent s reception for the graduates
rifle, pistol, sub-machine gun and ® ^ P m ^ bc annua' concert by mu-
other infantry weapons. !s,c faculty artlsts wlU b<‘ «lven at
Every day the officers of the unit;-1 p m Sunday June 4
walk from gun site to gun site and ! ^lss Edwards. daughter of Mr.
give the men the latest n«ws, lead :anci Mrs B T Edwards of La Pryor,
discussions on recent developments has aPPllod for a B S degree with a
in the news, analyse the latest trends maJ°r ,n home economics education.
at home, and carry on a well-planned
educational program that has the
men interested and even excited
over the daily discussions.
An athletic program, including
baseball games, gives the men
healthful recreation. And on almost
every gunsite the soldiers themselves
have built volleyball courts that are
in use all day every day.
And in what little spare time is
left, these soldiers have been work-
ing on their living quarters, making
them real homes. Little gardens,
stone walks between the huts,
shelves, tables, chairs, footlockers,
and the inevitable pin-up girls make
these huts look like home.
“We wouldn’t trade ihis job for
anything,” say these soldiers. “We
have beautiful surroundings, an in-
teresting assignment, and a lot of
fun at our posts, along with the
work. And we feel that we’re doing
a lot of good here in protecting vital
shipments once they arrive at our
port.’’
Among the soldiers who man these
gun sites is Pvt. Pedro P. Cardenas,
Jr., of Crystal City.
-WGD-
WILLIAM M. FRANKS
AVIATION CADET
BOISE, IDAHO—Wm M Franks,
son of Mr. and Mrs J. G. Franks of
1227 North Alamo Street, San An-
tonio has just recently grauated as
an Aviation Cadet and received his
wings as a 2nd Lt., according to word
received from Gowtn Field, Idaho,
where he is stationed.
Lt. Franks before he entered the
Army October 26. 1943, was em-
ployed by the U S. Engineering Dept,
in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The
Lt. now acts as a pilot on one of the
B-24 Liberator bombers at the Idaho
air base.
WGD-
She is u member of the Delphian
Club. Mary Swartz Rose Club and
the Southwest Texas Club. She has
also served as a house councilor
--WGD-
LA PRYOR WOODMAN-
CIRCLE HAD MEETING
The monthly meeting of the La
Pryor Woodman Circle was held in
the Masonic building, May 9th at 8:30
p. m.
Ten members answered roll call
and after reports of all committees
were given, new committees were
appointed in their places All busi-
ness was brought up to date, and
after our closing ceremony, the meet-
ing adjourned
REPORTER.
-WGD-
H M Addison, who recently fin-
ished “boot" training in the Navy
at San Diego, California, has been
transferred to Toledo, Ohio where
he will attend a Storekeeping School.
-o-
Mrs F. Lane of San Antonio vis-
ited here from Thursday to Sunday
as guest of her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr and Mrs. R. O. Busby.
Mrs. Lane came to attend the gradu-
tion exercises of her granddaughter,
Alyne Busby who was one of the
Crystal City High School graduates
Thursday evening.
L. R Hawthorn, horticulturist at
the Experiment Station has returned
from a business trip to points in Cal-
ifornia. Enroute home Mr. Hawthorn
stopped at Ysleta, Tex., near El Paso,
and visited with Supt. and Mrs, S. E.
Jones at the El Paso Valley Experi-
ment Station. Supt. Jones was the
entomologist at the Winter Garden
Experiment Station before going to
Ysleta.
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