The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1947 Page: 4 of 4
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The Harper Herald, Harper, Texas
Friday,. April 18,1947..
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^ j From where I sit... it/ Joe Marsh
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A Great Bunch
-These Ex-G.I/s
Are your brakes reliable?
Do they grab evenly?
There is always a man on
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Service to adjust brakes
and insure safe' worry-
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Willie Wells and a bunch of the
boys from our town went to Pound
Ridge Saturday to a reunion of
their old regiment.
Tliere were about two hundred
and fifty boys who came from
miles around to a goodHold feast
in Fanner Collins’ barn. I expect
they seemed a lot different to each
other out of uniform. But they
had a great time, spinning yarns,
drinking beer, and talking over the
old times in South Africa and Italy
and the Aleutians.
I went over to cover the meeting
for the Clarion, and one thing that
sure impressed me was the good
behavior of those boys—-their pref-
erence for a moderate beverage^
like beer—their friendly spirit.
From where I sit, our ex-G.I/s
are making as good a showing (in
peacetime as they made during
the war. And they’re .setting a
mighty good example to the rest
of us—in tolerance, and modera-
tion, and good fellowship.
CARE Adds Cotton Package In
Expanded Aid To Europe
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“Where’s old Bill bfeen lately?
I haven’t seen him for months?”
“What? Haven’t you ’eard?
He’s got three years for stealing
a ear.”
“What did he want to steal a
ear for? Why didn’t he buy one
an’ not pay for it, like a gentle-
man!”
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The Winning Of The West
The Corps of Engineer’s be-
came a key unit in the develop-
ment of the young nation’s re-
sources when they built roads,
Widened river channels, dug
canals, maintained the lighthouse
service, and made topographic
and geodetic surveys.
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There are 16 Dairy Herd Im-
provement Associations operat-
ing in Texas, involving 5,797
cows.
Across our desk each week
come a dozen or more reports
I from South Texas Soil Conser-
| vation Districts. .Reading these
i reports of soil saving and soil
improving measures being put in-
to effect, we could very easily
begin to believe that the greater
percent of our land is being pro-
tected or improved. However,
this impression is quickly eras-
ed when we take a short drive
in almost any direction. As
Agriculture Secretary Anderson
recently so aptly said, “Our ac-
count with nature’s bank of soil
is overdrawn.” Too much of our
precious soil has had its fertility
“mined” away by too intense
use, or washed away for lack of
proper control practices.
This is not to imply that Tex-
as is trailing other states in soil
conservation; on the contrary,
the Soil Conservation Service
tells us that Texas leads the
nation in the number of organiz-
ed soil conservation districts, as
well as in the aount of acreage
and number of farms involved
in the organizations. But there’s
plenty of work to be done.
The landowner who is or may
b e c o me soil conservation-
conscious will find plenty of
people anxious to offer assist-
ance. The Soil Conservation
Service, the Extension Service
and all other agricultural agen-
cies offer advice. The govern-
ment, through Triple-A payments
offers financial assistance. All
the landowner needs is willing-
ness and a relatively small a-
mount of money.
Lack of proper equipment may
be the reason for some landown-
ers hesitating to begin terracing.
But some of the previously men-
tioned news stories or progress
reports tell how this obstacle
has been overcome in many cas-
es. For example, W. G. Wiley.
Atascosa County farmer, has
just completed building terrac-
es on his farm, using his farm
tractor. In Frio County, J. H.
Nicholson is making good pro-
gress on terrace construction
with regular farm equipment.
The terraces are being built dur-
ing slack periods in Nicholson’s
crop planting schedule. Similar
examples are available in almost
any county.
Here’s a yarn about a success-
ful farm experiment that is not
recommended. Farmers in San
Patricio and Nueces Counties
were pretty sore about meadow
larks pulling up their sprouting
grain; so they spread poison
grain in their fields. Hundreds
of birds were killed before word
was spread that the practice vio-
lated Federal law.
All along we’ve thought that
unscrupulous people with fishin’
poles, sticks and stones were the
greatest threat to the pecan
producer’s crop. That perhaps
goes along with the idea that pe-
cans, like watermelons, were
grown to be “swiped”. But, now
we learn from the experts that
the pecan grower’s worst enemy
is an insect called the pecan nut
casebearer. Entomologists say
that the best control is spray-
ing with the right mixture at the
right time. Best mixture is com-
posed of six pounds of lead ar-
senate, one pint of nicotine suf-
fate and three quarts of summer
oil emulsion in 100 gallons of
water. Best time to spray is as
soon as possible after the nuts
have set.
It looks as though farmers are
going to find domestic demand
for this year’s crops. The U. S.
Department of Agriculture says
this demand is supported by in-
dustrial production at a record
peacetime high and by total in-
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SUNDAY NIGHT, APRIL 20
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come payments that are still ris-
ing. In addition to this home
market, export demand for some
products promises to be larger
than expected.
The annual A&M Poultry
Short Course will begin June 2
and end June 21. This course
is planned to training agents for
Texas hatcheries that expect to
work under the National Poultry
and Turkey Improvement Plans.
However, agricultural educators,
poultry producers and others are
invited. t
The Second Annual South Tex-
as Guernsey Field Day and Type
School will be held at Lazy D
Farms, near Converse and San
Antonio, Saturday, April 26. Of
particular interest to Guernsey
breeders, the event will attract j
dairy cow owners from all over'
Texas.
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New York, April 10 — Expan-
sion of CARE’s service to war-
devastated European countries to
include a fourth package, consist-
ing of 17 yards of cotton goods
adaptable to the home manufac-
ture of a variety of garments,
was announced today by Paul C.
French, General Manager of
CARE (Cooperative for American
Remittances to Europe, Inc.)
Like the food, woolen and blan-
ket packages offered by CARE
to American purchasers desirous
of sending help to relatives,
friends and designated groups a-
broad, the cotton package may
now be ordered at a cost of $10
at CARE headquarters, 50 Broad
Street, New York 4, N. Y. De-
livery is guaranteed. Mr. French
made the announcement of the
expanded program shortly after
his return from a European trip
to unify and speed up CARE oper-
ations abroad.
The cotton package contains 4
yards of white broadcloth; 4 yds.
of pink or blue broadcloth; 4
yards of printed dress material;
2V2 yards of printed shirting; 2
Vz yards of navy drill; a pack-
age of needles; a thimble; a pair
of scissors, and 8 spools of
thread.
Mr. French pointed out that
these materials were chosen on
the basis of a survey that disclos-
ed acute shortages in the coun-
tries served by CARE. A family
receiving the package will be in
a position to make trousers, work
shirt, woman’s skirt, a child’s
suit, a man’s shirt, a blouse, un-
derwear, woman’s dress and
children’s dresses. The goods
provide the possibility of numer-
Mrs. W. H. Stevens, Miss Vir-
ginia Stevens and Harvey Stev-
ens, Jr., went to Houston on
Thursday to attend the last rites
of Mrs. Clara T. Henrichs, who
passed away on Tuesday, April
15th, after a lingering illness.
Deceased leaves many friends in
the Harper community where
she used to visit for many years
during the summer months.
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Harper, Texas
Saturday Night, April 19th
Benefit Senior Class
Harper High School.
Everybody Cordially Invited,
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FRIDAY and SATURDAY,
APRIL 18 and 19
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SUNDAY and
APRIL 20
MONDAY,
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FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON
Hill Country League
SUNDAY, APRIL 20th
3:00 P. M.
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Harper Community Park
Baseball Diamond
HARPER
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SEIPP'S
OF FREDERICKSBURG
Come, see the first game of the year.
A cordial welcome to all!
ous combinations of clothing, de-
pending on the family require-
ments.
The cotton package, like the
other three parcels offered by!
CARE, may be sent to Austria,]
Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Fin-
land, France, Greece, Italy, Hun-
gary, Netherlands, Norway, Po-
land, Rumania and Germany
(American, French and British
Zones and all Berlin). For the
time being, only the food pack-
age may be bought for England,1
Wales, Scotland and Northern
Ireland.
While in Paris, Mr. French was
presented with the Cross of the
Order of Public Health of
France in recognition of CARE’s
service to that country. In mak-
ing the presentation, General P.
Grossin, Military Secretary Gen-
eral of th ePresidency of the Re-
public, said that “ you show to all
those who receive your benefits
that they are not altogether dis-
inherited, and that men and
women of America think of them,
know personally their miseries
and thus give to human fraterni-
ty its true meaning.”
At a ceremony held today in
New York, a testimonial scroll
was presented to Mr. French by
Patricia Peardon, star of “Junior
Miss”, on behalf of* the Friends
of Widows and Orphans of the
French Resistance. The scroll,
read by Miss Peardon, recited
the hardships of which the
widows and orphans were reliev-
ed by CARE packages, and con-
cluded:
“In the name of our family
so cruelly tried, we express our
profound thanks and beg you to
accept all our gratitude.”
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Your 1947 license receipt, issued when you
paid the license fee, must be presented, along
with the Certificate of Title, when you apply
for your plates. This is necessary to avoid
errors of giving out the wrong license plates.
The State Highway Department requests
that all plates should be called for at the
earliest possible date.
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