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FAIRFIELD TRADES DAY SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19th
FIRST In Local New*
FIRST in County News
FIRST In School News
FIRST In Church News
The Fairfield Recorder
THE COUNTY PAPER—Established 1876
FIRST In Adv. Service
FIRST in Job Printing
F IRST in Frogressiveness
FIRST in Fublic Service
SIXTIETH YEAR
FAIRFIELD, FREESTONE, COUNTY, TEXAS,
OCTOBER 17, 1935
NUMBER 4
Wants Dollar
Value for Every
Dollar Spent
jjAN ANTONIO, Oct. 7.—Reiter-
uting that dollar’s value must bere-
aved for every dollar spent by
Works Progress Administration in
Texas, Administrator H. P. Drought
this week instructed engineering of-
ficials to plan greatest possible ef-
ficiency in the works division.
“We have no fear of running out
of man-power on these projects,"
Drought explained. “When Texas’
list of employables has been exhaus-
ted, our job will have been complet-
ed.
“Federal authorities have attempt-
ed to secure final approval of ap-
proximately twice as many projects
as can be financed out of available
funds," Drought declared. “This has
been deliberately done to afford n
maximum of latitude in operating
the program by insuring instantly-
approved projects of every charac-
ter. It is obvious, therefore hat wo
cannot prosecute every project. Wo
are expected to utilize these projects
to meet the need of employment that
exists in each locality, choosing from
among the approved projects those
which require the number and parti-
cular classes of workers that are
available from the relief rolls.”
Drought asserted that fairness to
the sponsors who, in many instances
are conH' Ring materially toward
the completion of projects demands
the work be done thoroughly and con-
scientiously.
“We must never lose sight of the
fact that our major purpose is the
rehabilitation of human being3,”
Drought declared. “It is only through
demanding an honest day's work for
a day’s pay that we can remove th?
specter of the dole from the lives
of perst .r >vjhn are subsisting on
WPA wages.”
By seeking approval of more pro-
jects than necessary to absorb all
employables from Texas relief rolls
as of May, 1935, state WPA offici-
als hope to be able to choose only
work of permanent worthwhile na-
ture in the program which has al-
ready taken several thousand persona
off the dole.
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GIRL BORN TO FORMER
RESIDENTS OF DEW
Relief Rolls
In Texas Being
Reduced By WPA
SAN ANTONIO. Oct.
rolls in Texas slumped
week as Works Progress Administra-
tion projects absorbed approxi
2,700 more former relief cliefa* on
work projects scattered
the twenty WPA districts, ^
With 52 projects ur^derwjj^
various parts of the stat
17.—Relief
again this
itf'
tjjjpwely
thrdu^hout
in
WPT has
removed 6,838 Texans f:
Dt. E. E. Hale, state d:
bor management annouiffld (today.
W. R. BOY D Works authorizations for 108 addi-
Of New York, executive vice-pres- j tional projects have been released by
ident A. P I. who is now resting state officials and an estimated 6,000
at his lodge near Fairfield.
Polling Places
Ready for Vote
On Corn - Hogs
Eight polling places where Free-
stone County farmers can cast their
gRes in the nation-wide corn-hog re-
ferendum on Saturday, October 26,
have been set up in the county, it is
a^i.ounced by W. B. Frederick, Coun-
ts agricultural agent.
Only one question will be on the
ballot: Are you in favor of a corn-
hog adjustment program to follow
the 1935 program which expires on
November 30, 1935? All operators
and owners, or their official repre-
sentatives, of farm which produced
corn or hogs in 1935 may vote whe-
CHAINED FOR WORKERS
Sec. Wallace
Announces Corn-
Hog Referendum
COLLEGE STATION, Oct. 16.—
Secretary Wallace announced recent-
ly that as a result of the public hear-
ing held in Washington, D. C., on the
corn-'nog situation that a national
corn-hog referendum would be held
to let corn and hog producers
throughout the United States decide
as to whether they wanted a new-
more persons now subsisting on the
dole are expected to be added to the . .
I ,• 1, . , XXrr,A ther they signed 1934 or 1935 corn
l active working list of WPA within L_____?___*____,
a few days, Hale asserted. Practical
Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Minor of West
9th Ave., Corsicana, former resi-
dents of the Dew community are the
proud parents of another little
daughter, born Oct. 1st. Her name is
Jimmye Lou, but little Glenda Sut
persists in calling her “Little Bud,”
with real enthusiasm. The mother
and baby are both doing nicely.—
Reporter.
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CARD OF THANKS
I wish to announce that I have
closed my Palace of Sweets for the
winter and I take this method of
thanking all those who patronized
me while in business. Best wishes
and good luck.
RANKIN GILPIN.
corn-hog contract.
“The referendum, which is to be
held on October 26, is intended to
provide an opportunity for full and
free expression, both for and against
a voluntary adjustment program, on
the part of all corn and hog produ-
cers,” E. M. Regenbrecht, chairman
of the State Corn-Hog Review Board
at College Station, ’said upon dis-
cussing plans for the referendum in
Texas.
“It rests with Texas farmers them- pa ment
selves «vh« ther or not there is enough
interest and demand for a corn-hog
adjustment program to justify the
AAA offering such a program,” he
pointed out.
Regenbrecht went on to say that
plans are going forward throughout
the State to inform county corn-hog
control associations of the details of
holding the referendum.
He also pointed out that an ad-
justment program might be urgent
in view of corn and hog prices and
the outlook for future production,
and yet if enough farmers do not
vote in favor of such a program, the
AA Administration will not be justi-
fied in offering a new program.
“Voting in the referendum will in
no way bind producers to accept or
sign a contract, as the contract it-
self, should the producers vote for
one, will be entirely voluntary as was
the last one,” he said.
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ly all of the authorizations are ac-
companied by advice to start work at
once, state WPA officials said.
In addition to the more than six
thousand former relief clients who
are now engaged in work on WPA pro-
jects, there are 120 non-relief em-
ployes working in various capacities
on WPA jobs.
WPA also has been instrumental
in placing 7,310 former relief clients
to work on non-WPA jobs, Hale’s
records reveal. Non-WPA jobs have
also been provided for 1,251 non-re-
lief employes, according to Hale.
Included among those who have used
men supplied through WPA facili-
ties are such organizations as: CCC
camps', PWA, Bureau of Internal
Revenue, United States Treasury
Department, Alcohol Tax Unit, Ru-
ral Resettlement Administration,
FERA, Bureau of Public Roads, De-
partment of Agriculture, veterans’
camps, soil conservation, U. S. De-
of Labor, and various
Allotments aggregating $3,868,650
for work to be started in Texas have
been received from Washington and,
in each instance, federal allotments
have been speedily followed by work
authorizations to be the various
Texas WPA districts, state officials
declared.
District officials have declared
themselves ready to handle projects
as rapidly as federal allotments are
received, Deputy Administrator Ro-
bert J. Smith reported, and all work
authorizations which have been sent
to districts in the state have result-
ed in rapid starting of projects.
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CASES DISPOSED OF
IN DISTRICT COURT
REVIVAL ANNOUNCEMENT
There will be a revival meeting at
the First Baptist Church beginning
Sunday morning, October 20th. Ser-
vices each evening beginning at 7:15
P- m. throughout the following week.
STATE’S COMPACT
IS LEADING FACTOR
IN STABILIZING OIL
TO DRILL OIL
TEST WELL IN
LUNA SECTOR
DALLAS, Oct. 12.—The oil states’
compact will be a powerful factor in
stabilizing oil industry as soon as
producing states now members join
the group, W. R. Boyd, Jr., executive
vice president of the American Pet-
roleum Institute, said here today.
The API will do what it can to en-
courage the compact and make its op-
eration effective, Boyd said. Its op-
eration and possibilities will be dis-
cussed at length at the Los Angeles
convention, he said.
Boyd, whose headquarters are in
New York, stopped in Dallas on route
tc his farm near Fairfield.
Mrs. Linda Tackett vs. N. A.
Saigh, damage. Verdict of jury in
favor of plaintiff in the sum of
$5000.00.
Dan Dobbs vs. Texas Employers
Insurance Association, agreed judg-
ment for plaintiff for $1800.00.
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Cottage Prayer Meeting
Cottage prayer meeting will
at
in the home of Mrs. Roger
ard.
hog contracts or not. Each eligible
person is entitled only to one vote.
The schedule of the polling places
which will be open from 8:00 a. m.,
to 10:00 p. m., together with the corn-
hog committeemen who will be in
charge as follows:
Donie—J. D. Worthy.
Teague—Lloyd Webb.
Wortham—R. Q. Seely.
St. Elmo—W. E. Lee.
Fairfield—W. F. Huckaby.
Liberty—Clark Shields.
Dew—W. J. Lane, Sr.
Lanely—J. R. Adkins.
County results of the referendum
will be wired to state headquarters
at College Station by Monday noon,
and the state results, in turn, will
be sent to Washington, Tuesday.
Officials of the AAA point out
that unless a sufficient number of
farmers vote favorably, there will
bo no program. The administration
must be assured that a sufficient
number of farmers will participate
to make a program operative and
successful.
Fqcts upon which farmers can base
their judgment have been presented
at a series of community meetings.
Evidence was presented to show that
livestock numbers are far out of line
with feed supplies as a result of the
drought. With plentiful supplies of
cheap feed in prospect and with ra-
pid rebuilding of swine numbers
possible, farmers and consumers
face the prospect that the next
three years may bring the greatest
increase in hog production that the
country has ever seen in a similar
period and consequent disastrous
hog prices.
During the past 45 years there
have been ten such violent ups and
downs, or cycles, which have under-
mined the swine industry, brought
violent upswings and downswings
in pork prices, destroyed farm buy-
ing power and wiped out markets
for industrial products.
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Miss Mary Slate, nineteen, slendei
and pretty garment worker. Is seen
chained to a traffle post In New York
an ordeal to which she submitted vol
untarlly. Her plight attracted atten
tlon to the demands of striking ship
ping clerks and allied workers In tht
women's garment Industry. As pollct
Hied at her fetters she pleaded wlG
noonday crowds to support the strike,
ivhtrb l°te« wax settled by compromise.
Public Warned
Beware So-Called
Pension Agents
It appears from newspaper reports
that unscrupulous persons in sev-
eral sections of the State have been
posing as Old Age Pension agents
and have been attempting to collect
fees for ‘assisting’ in securing pen-
sions for old people.
The people of this state are warn-
ed against paying money to any-
one who offers to help them secure
an Old Age Pension or to put their
name on the ‘rolls’ or do anything
else in this connection for pay.
Numerous requests are received
daily by the Office of the State Audi-
Nine Main Points
Figure In Corn-
Hog Production
By W. B. FREDERICK, Co. Agt.
No less than nine major factors
will have to be weighed by Freestone
County farmers before they mark
their ballots in the nation wide corn-
hog referendum, Saturday, October
26th, according to G. B. Weaver,
President of the County Corn-Hog
Control Association.
Not one of the nine points can be
slighted, he said, in reaching a sound
“yes” or “no” decision on the re-
ferendum question: Do you favor a
corn-hog adjustment program to fol-
low the 1935 program which ex-
pires November 30, 1935?
First, in the outlook is the coun-
try's small livestock population. Un-
precedented drought which cut the
corn crop and the harvest of other
feed grains almost in half last year
forced farmers to strip their herds
and flocks down to the smallest
number of grain-consuming animals
on farms in 34 years. Furthermore,
the country’s livestock population
will not have been rebuilt to any
great extent by the beginning of
i 1936.
' Second, although farmers have
| 15 per cent less livestock than they
, have during the 5-year period, 1928-
! 32, it is estimated that at the close
j of this year’s harvest, they will have
.enough feed supplies for almost
] as many animals as the average dur-
! ing the five year period. The grain
supply per animal this winter is
therefore expected to be larger than
in any year since the World War,
except 1926.
Third, if there is no adjustment
program in 1936, the farmers will be
likely to harvest more than 100 mil-
lion acres of corn. They harvested
about 105 1-2 million acres in 1932
and 1933, and a recent government
report indicates a 1935 harvest of
nearly 94 million acres. Acreage this
year was held down to 94 million
only because corn-hog contract sign-
ers retired about 11 1-2 million
acres. With average yields an un-
controlled acreage of corn next year
would mean a production of more
than 2 1-2 billion bushels. Since it
is doubtful that the number of grain-
consuming animals will be increased
enough in 1936 to bring the grain
tor. These letters come from all parts
of the State from persons interested per animal back’ to normal,
URGED TO PAY
SCHOOL TAXES NOW
The Fairfield school district is in
in Old Age Pensions. These people
ask for application blanks and for
the names of the proper persons in
their districts to whom applications
should be made for pensions. •
It is suggested that the people
watch the newspapers for facts on
pension procedure and wait until the
proper agency has been designated to
which applications may be made.
They should remember that at this
time no one is authorized to receive
applications for Old Age Pensions.
The Legislature is now working
on the problem of enacting legisla-
tion to carry out the provisions of
the amount of feed per head would
continue high during the 1936-37
feeding season.
Fourth, with a large supply of
corn and too few animals to utilize
it, the trend of prices of corn during
the coming year is expected to be
downward. With uncontrolled pro-
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LANELY CITIZEN
FOUND DEAD IN
FIELD FRIDAY
be
need of funds and taxpayers in the the Old Age Pension amendment, but
: ditsrict are urged to pay their school at this time no legislation has been
enacted and there is, therefore, at
held Friday afternoon at 3 o’clock taxes now to assist in maintaining enacted and there is, therefore,
Stew- the schools without
iinto the red.
funds going
present no agency to whom applica-
tions may be made.
Thousands Pay Homage to Senator Long
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vr.lAr! e
corn-
other
The derrick has been
pleted and boilers and
machinery installed to drill a
well on the H. H. Knight land at
Luna about 11 miles southwest
«f Fairfield.
H is reported that J. J. Leigh-
ton of Rochester, N. Y., now- locat-
ed in Teague, has contracted
with If. Richardson of Houston
to drill the well, and it is to be
spudded In today or tomorrow.
A new 122 foot steel derrick was
♦ reeled for the work.
Eur a number of year* Young
A llaley have been interested
'be l.una territory, and ha«a
spent an enormous sum drilling
wells and keeping lease* alls*,
"•are not Informed If the*
•'* “O*netted with the preeeol
AUXILIARY MEETING
The Auxiliary Circle No. 1 of the
First Baptist Church met October 7,
w.ith the president, Mrs. C. E. Childs
presiding. The Bible lesson was
taught by Mrs. Jim Tate. We extend
a cordial invitation to all ladies to
be present at these meetings at three
o’clock every Monday afternoon, at
the church.
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GINNING IN THIS
COUNTY STILL BEHIND
LAST SEASON
Census report shows there were.
ginn< <1 in Freest one county this year
up to Oct, 12, tiJWPi ball's of cotton.
Hsiue dole lost year, 8,094 bales had
been glutted.
Former County Commissioner, J
S. filtgrr. dropped III te aaa Utti
kttlurdey
I. N. Dawson, aged 71, resident of
Freestone county for some 30 years,
and living on the John Hill place for
20 years, died in the Lanely com-
munity Friday. Burial was at Dew,
Saturday, under direction of Stew-
ard & Burleson, following services
conducted by Rev. G. C. Condrey.
Mr. Dawson left his home to do
some repair work on a fence, and not
returning search was made, and he
was found dead near the fence; he
is supposed to have been stricken with
a heart attack.
He is survived by his wife and the
following children: B. R. Dawson,
Dew; Oscar Dawson, Coolidge; Mrs.
Alvin Allen, Dew; Mrs. John White,
Rutherford, Ark.; Omar and Roy
Dawson, Dew; Mrs. Artrey Reeves,
Oregon and seven stepchildren.
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NEW HOPE WELL
IN AUSTIN CHALK
AT 2800 FEET
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glp'g putiat, M Ma rry lay la guia la Um ralaa4» af Um atau capita! la Balaa (twuga.
I). A. Haddick was here Wed-
nesday and informed us that
the oil leat well on the W. W.
McFall land in New Hope Com-
munity about sixteen miles west
of Fairfield, is now down 2800
feet and in Austin chalk. Con-
tractor* are quoted as saying
that Ike well will lie drilled
carefully and tested constantly.
This and the Luna well glean
Freestone counti two tests un-
der way.
John Daeid Burleson was la Dal
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Kirgan, Lee. The Fairfield Recorder (Fairfield, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 17, 1935, newspaper, October 17, 1935; Fairfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1110383/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fairfield Library.