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THE 8TBPHENVILLE EMPIRE-TRIBUNE, STBPHENVILLE. TEXAS
FRIDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1947
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HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION HAS
IMPROVED IN FACE OF COSTS
While costs of labor and ma-
terials have increased the cost of
building roads, just as they have
increased the price of all other
essentials, highway design and
construction and durability have
vastly improved, J. T. Callaway,
president of the American Road
Builders’ Association, points out.
‘‘Engineers agrfie that this vast-
ly better design and construction
are demanded by increased speed
and volume," he said. “Today’s
highways are being built to furn-
ish maximum safety for a mass
of traffic undreamed of 4vhen
earlier roads were constructed.
“Twenty-five years ago, roads
were built simply and quickly to
connect cities and centers of popu-
lations. Motorists drove over them
at 30 miles an hour,” said Mr.
Callaway.
“Today’s roads must be built to
carry axle loads of 18,000 pounds.
Wider traffic lanes, easier curves,
flatter grades and wider shoulders
are road essentials for a nation
piling up 340,000,000 vehicle-miles
yearly. These essentials cost more
for they require improved road
bases, more paving, more earth
moving and wider right-of-way.
Up to now, traffic demands have
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increased more rapidly than facil-
ities have been provided, but to-
day’s roads are being built to
meet the needs of the future.
A-ccess Road Is Key
“We must look to the controll-
ed access highway to solve the
traffic problem in congested areas
and provide maximum safety for
increasing number of drivers, Mr.
Callaway added. “These facilities
will require the expenditures of
enormous sums of money, but will
pay long-range dividends in in-
creased ease, economy and safety
of travel." i
He pointed out that on a per-
mlle basis it is costing|5,500,000
a mile to build a modern high-
speed highway to meet today’s
traffic needs in Pennsylvania. The
first nine miles of the Penn Lin-
coln Parkway in Pittsburgh will
cost $50, 000,000. This limited ac-
cess highway will be four to six
lanes wide with no intersections
at grade.
“But cost per mile is not the
proper measure of road cost,” the
ARBA president declared. “Road
costs today must be estimated in
terms of vehicle capacity. They
must provide for a smooth easy
flow of traffic. Costs must be
measured in terms of maximum
safety for those who use the high-
ways.’’
TP&L Building at Brownwopd
included in the fifty million
dollar expansion program of the
Texas Power & Light Company
is a 6000 h. p. unit to the Brown-
wood generating plant the com-
pany. has operated for a long
/period of years. The new instal-
ntion is expected to be ready for
use in June of 1948. Cost of the
new addition has not been named
but is expected to total a large
cash outlay.
Granbury Orders Bond Election
For the purpose of making im-
provements in the sewer, water
and street departments, city ol-
ficials of Granbury have ordered
an election to determine if pro-
perty owners will authorize the
issuance of $50,000 in bonds to
take care of the expense of pro-
posed improvements. The election
will be held Tuesday, November
4th.
Mrs. J. S. Nutt, of Dallas, was
here last week as a guest in the
home of Mrs. W. B. Sensing of
Tarleton Avenue. Mrs. Nutt was
looking after the apartment house
while Mrs. Sansing was in Ala-
bama and Mississippi visiting rela-
tives.
F. H. A.
(Federal Housing Administration)
The Real Way To
Buy Your Home ...
Come in and let us explain all details.
It will be a pleasure to us to help you.
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Insurance, Hospitalization Insurance, Accident
end Health.
H. J. NEBLETT
Phone 183 Stephenvllle, Texas
FORT ROBINSON, PROUD OUTPOST
OF INDIAN WARS, IS ON WAY OUT
FORT ROBINSON, Neb., Old In-
dian-fighters won’t believe it until
the last soldier shoulders his pack
and hikes away.
But the word from Washington
ia that old Fort Robinson is being
shifted from the War Department
to the Department of Agriculture.
It’s a tad change to contemplate
for a proud frontier outpost which
played a great part in the “win-
ning of the West.”
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For tale-spinning old > timers
among the Indians and early sett-
lers, it’s the body blow after the
fort’s World War II assignment:
training dogs.
Of course, they were war dogs,
taught to be aa ruthless with the
enemy as was Chief Crasy Horae
who first broke Custer’s line at
the Little Big Horn.
Still, they were just dogs. Not
regiments of stout young men put-
ting down the greatest uprising in
Indian history.
Began Fighting Early
Only a year after it was built
In 1874, the fort was sending out
columns to fight the Cheyennes and
the Sioux. The campaign lasted
three years, with no clear decision
on either side. »
It was during this three-year
war that Crazy Horse and Chief
Sitting Bull led the Custer mas-
sacre. When Crazy Horse finally
was taken, he met death inside
Fort Robinson's gates.
Crazy Horse died in the same
guardhouse from which Chief Dull
Kn:fe and his hand made a dra-
matic escape. Dull Knife and his
men were killed—but not until
their bravery and chivalry toward
their women and children had won
them great admiration.
Gold was discovered in the near-
by Black Hills of South Dakota.
Some of the flood of immigrants
refused to honor the lines between
Indian and Yankee country. Fort
Robinson troops were kept busy
protecting American prospectors,
even those who trespassed on In-
dian domain. a ■
There are no more Indian war?.
But there are wrinkled old In-
dians who remember those turbu-
lent days, and other ancient whites
who boast their part in the early
frontier battles.
Indiana Barisd There
Greatest reminder at the fort of
the Indian campaigns is the old
cemetery. Bodies of many soldiers,
civilians and Indians, most of them
veterans of the Sioux and Cheyen-
ne campaigns, lie there. The two
raoet noted graves are those of
“California Joe” and “Little Bat,”
two famous Indian scouts.
Fort Robinson was almost aban-
doned once before—in 1910 when
its trdops were sent to the Mexi-
can border. But some reason for
maintaining it was found and in
1919 the Fort Robinaon Quarter-
master Remount Depot was set up.
The quartermaster remount de-
pot had only one purpose: To take
care of, buy and dispose of “pub-
lic animals.” That meant horses,
and the fort abounded with them
until war was thoroughly mechan-
ized.
The war dog training—which put
the fort back in the public eye
for the first time since the Indian
wars—began in October, 1942. If
it wasn’t as heroic as Indian
fighting, it was certainly impres-
sive for those who live in Nebra-
ska sandhills.
The war dogs were decked out
in fine harness, had heated huts,
and soldiers danced attendance on
them. Scoffers, however, learned
of. the dogs’ valiant service at the
battleline and in guarding war
installations. More recently some of
thk few remaining dogs pulled
sleds into Colorado mountains to
rekeue air crash victims.
/ Reserve Deadline Near
The Navy has set a Nov. 10
deadline on applications from high
school seniors and graduates for
its Naval Reserve Officers Train-
ing Corps program. Approximate-
ly 2500 youths will receive all-
expense college courses as the re-
sult of tests to be given in Decem-
ber in 550 cities. Application
blanks are available from Navy
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Tolar Station Sold
The Humble Station at Tolar,
operated by E. D. George for
some time, was sold last week to
B. C. Harrison who will manage
the station in the future. In the
transaction George acquired the
Harrison farm and will occupy
it as a permanent residence. Rea-
son for the sale of the Tolar pro-
perty was because of continued
ill health of Mrs. George.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ander-
son were in Fort Worth Saturday
of last week where Mr. Andersen
was looking after business inter-
ests. While there they also attend-
ed the TCU-Texaa A A M foot-
ball game.
We’ve Come a Long Way
from the Longhorns
Longhorns by the millions ranging the western
grasslands from the Gulf Coast to Montana ... build-
ing empires . . . ipaking history and legend on the
great cattle trails! That was sixty and more yean
ago. Then the railroads came, much of the range was
fenced and the fate of the longhorn was sealed. Short-
horn, Angus and Hereford bulls came in from the
east. Gradually, the longhorns were brad out of
existence, until today only a few iaolated “museum”
herds are left.
This is one story of continuing livestock progress,
of better animals developed to meet changing condi-
tions and needs. Who knows but that in another fifty
years today’s “best” may look as old fashioned ae
longhorns do now.
With hogs, one amazing change is in the increased
speed and efficiency of producing pork. Three yean
once was needed to raise a hog to market weight.
Today, pigs often weigh 200 to 250 pounds at six
months or less. Straight line and cross bred breeding
experiments seek even more efficient hogs to make
weight in the same short time, but produce more meat.
In lambs, development is directed toward “dual-
purpoee” breeds. Certain breeds have bdjin best for
wool but not best for meat. Others produced the
meat but were lacking in wool. Researchers have
made progress on breeds of lambs to produce both
meat and good wool economically.
A first step in the improvement of any animals or
any herd is to use proven sires on dams of known pro-
ductive ability. The eye alone is not enough, lb know
production records and ancestry ia vital. Bull grading
programs offer greater certainty in choosing a sire.
Weighing young animals at weaning time and mark-
ing them is important, especially in the selection of
gilts. A “touch system” of sheep grading is proving
helpful in culling large bands in Little time.
On any matter pertaining to livestock breeds or
breeding, Swift & Company has no favorites. We
serve the intereets of producers of all breeds, in all
parts of the country. We urge you to watch carefully
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Track Down the Facts
These are the tracks of the coyote. They
look like dog track*, but there are differ-
g *-encee which the expert tracker can see.
In the livestock business, too, some-
times things are not as they seem to be.
For example, aome people say we wests our grain by feed-
ing it to animals. Instead, they think we should eat the
grain ourselves. They do not realize that the millioiw of
bead of cattle,#nd lamb* that are marketed every year era
little more than grass turned into meat It ia true that
many of thaee animals are fed e certain amount of grain
and other concentrates to turn them Into finished meat
animate. However, if it were not for cattle and Lambs,
779,000,000 acres of land in the United Statae would pro-
duce little. If any, food for humane To put it another way,
about 61% of the total land of our nation rnneteta of
grazing land which cannot bn uned tor producing other
feeds and food.
■Fattang
your farm publications, and the bulletins of your
state agricultural station, and the accomplishments
of successful breeders for latest news about the kind*
of livestock which you raise.
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UPSIDE DOWN CHILI PIE
(Yield* 6 tarring*)
I pound ground beef % teoipoon cM powder
VS cup chopped onion " Yi teoipoon ioH
I tobleipoon ahortenlng 1 teoipoon Worcmtonhire
1 cup cooked kidney Sauce
beam 1 cup cooked tomatoe*
Souti meat and onion in melted ihortening. Add beam, leaion-
Ingi, and tomatoe*. Cover. Simmer gently about 15 minute*.
Four Into a greased 9-Inch pie plate. Top with com brood batter.
Sake In a hot oven (425 degree* F.) for 20 minutoi.
Com bread
h cup lifted flour i j 1 tobleipoon mgor
V4 cup yellow corn mool 1 beaten egg
2 teoipoon* baking Yt cup milk
, powdor 2 tobleipoon* stelted
1 teoipoon *oft ihortening
Mix and lift dry Ingredient*. Combine egg and milk. Add to
flour mixture, itirring until well mixed. Stir in ihortening. Four
over chill In pie plate.
Packers do not makd
livestock prices
.X CJt/ In their day, the hardy, self-sufficient
lon*horn* were the breed for the
open, unfenced ranges. In a land with-
out transportation they actually took
themselves to market. But the tough longhorn
couldn’t match qewer breeds in beef production.
Calves from Hereford, Shorthorn and Angus bulla
and from thrifty longhorn dams grew faster. They
produced more and better meat from leae feed.
Blockier and of heavier frame, they yielded more of
the more popular meat cute. They were better money
makers for farmers and ranchers. Such results en-
couraged selection of better foundation stock.
Each improvement in meat production has been
met by increased demand for popular cuts on Amer-
ica’s dinner tables Livestock producers and meat
packers have worked hand-in-hand to encourage
greeter demand for meat. But Swift & Company
plays no favorites among breeds of beef producing
animals. We do pot make markets ... we find them.
In our buying of livestock we transmit to producers
the knowledge of the kinds of meet that are preferred
in various sections of the country.
The price producers receive for tWr livestock h
governed by whet the packer
can get for the meat and by- '-'’I. Jimp ton.
products. •
Will It Pay Me to Specialize?
by M. T. Buchanan
State Collage of Washington
“Should I specialize in some cfbp or en-
terprise, or should I diversify my oper-
ations?*' Many farmers and ranchers
have to find the answer to this question. ______
For instance, in the state of Washington *•*'•••»*«-»
there are 63 distinct types of farming in this one state
alone. And they should consider that the types of prod-
ucts which come from farm* in different areas of the
United States are not accidental. They are caused by
the inter-actinn 0f physical and economic factors. The
operation of these two forces has been hastened by
mechanization, development of better crop varieties,
breeds and diaeaae-rasistant strains.
Specialization, of course, leads to increased efficiency
in the use of labor, equipment, capital and buildings.
Marketing ia an easier task and more time is
available for maintenance of equipment and for
planning new and better methods. A great deal of
the increase in production of agricultural prod-
ucts has resulted from specialization. Farms
have increased in size. Proportionately, the
amount of labor needed has decreased, allowing
more labor for uae in other ways.
Specialize or diversify? There’s plenty of “real
life” evidence to help you in reaching a decision.
Go visiting. See how your neighbor does it. It’s
your problem and even if you decide to no
changes from your present plan, you’ll get a lot of
ideas on how you can do your work better.
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Higgs, Rufus F. Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, October 24, 1947, newspaper, October 24, 1947; Stephenville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1120591/m1/18/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.