The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1939 Page: 3 of 8
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THE NOCONA NEWS
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For your Parties, Dances,
or other social engagements.
P. O. Box 624 Phone 292
Nocona, Texas
Furniture
Repairing
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Hill’s Furniture
Shop
On corner west of Cone's
Hardware
GET THOSE FEET OUT OF HIS FACE
Capps Family Enjoys
Reunion Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Capps of
Nocona, Route 2. had their children
and grandchildren as their guests at
their home Sunday. June 25. The
occasion was a family get-together
celebrating the first time all of the
family had been together in thirteen
years. Each child was seated at his
respective childhood plate at the
dining table.
Thc.se present were Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Short and family of Kermit.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud Wallace and
family of Nocona, Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Caps of Troup, and her brother,
Tommie Durham of Houston. Mr.
and Mrs. Carlton Capps and daugh-
ter of Troup. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Capps and daughter of Troup.
Thoee visiting in the afternoon
were Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Capps and
children of Bowie. Mrs. Tom Baker.
Mrs. C. N. Titsworth. Mrs. Coy
Baker, and daughter of Nocona. Mrs.
Alfred Croy and daughter of Dun-
can. Oklahoma.
Family chats and picture taking
were enjoyed throughout the after-
noon.
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DIXIE
By Bessie Phipps
The statement so persistently pro.
< i Announces the opening of her
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alone is annually
of several million
Such countries as
and Japan are
;; Two private piano lessons and
J I one class lesson of Music
■ • Interpretation will be taught
• ’ each week.
Miss Eunice McDaniel spent the
week-end with her parents. Mr. and
Mrs. Fate McDaniel, and sister, Miss
Euna McDaniel, of Alvord. She was
accompanied to Nocona Sunday af-
ternoon by Misses Cleo Patton, Neva
Chloe Mosley, Dorothy Standfield
and Euna McDaniel, all of Alvord.
Mrs. Nora Lee Kimbrell of Wash-
ington, D. C.. Mr. ana Mrs. Doc Hay
and daughters. Janette and Janelle,
of Wichita Falls, Mr. and Mrs. Will
Phillips and grandsons. Wid Phillips
and Patrick Lewis Crawford, Mr.
and Mrs. Charlie Phillips of Saint
Jo. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Roy Gist of
Valley View, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Har.
yard and son and daughter, Philip
Vance and Nannie Cathryn. Mr. and
Mrs. Bas Gist and sons, Dan Ray
and Jack Lee. visited in the home
of Mrs. W. B. Gist and sister, Tennie
Phillips, Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Weldon Cowan and
daughter, Travis Faye, visited in the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
O. M. Allison over the week-end. Mr.
Cowan is principal of summer school
in Wichita Falls. Miss Campbell
Allison returned home with them
where she will visit this week.
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GREATEST
TIRE BARGAINS
OF THE YEAR
King Cotton Is On
His Way Out
Music Studio
At Her Home
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Listen to the Voice of Firestone with Richard Crooks, Margaret Speaks
and the Firestone Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Alfred
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COME IN TODAY AND^
EQUIP YOUR CAR WITH THE
VALUE SENSATION OF 1939!
south is doomed is branded as a
gross fallacy by Walter Hansen in an
article on "Let's Dethrone King
Cotton” in the June issue of Texas
Parade. Present attempts to find
new markets for cotton—to save
King Cotton—are subjected to a ver-
bal barrage that ends with the plea,
"King Cotton is already on his way
out. Let’s give him a shove.”
“It is impossible for anyone.” writes
Mr. Hanson, “to appropriate an
accurate figure as to the amount of
depletion cotton has caused in our
soil, water and human lives.” A
North Texas State Teachers College
instructor who has made extensive
studies in the effect of cotton culti-
vation on soil, Mr. Hanson is a re-
cognized authority on conservation
problems.
"Rather than have our leaders
engage in a campaign to save King
Cotton, we should recognize cotton
for what it is—a great waster of
both natural and human resources—
and we should do all in our power to
eliminate this destructive force as
quickly as possible,” he writes. "It
is time we cease paying tribute to a
king who, for many years, has been
draining the South of its best re-
sources. One authority estimates
that the average acre of land loses
30 tons of soil each year cotton is
grown. Government experiments
near Tyler show losses up to 57 tons
of soil per acre each vear. Many
farmers each year lose more from
their land in terms of soil erosion
than is received from the sale of
cotton.
“Cotton, by virtue of the fact that
it is a clean tilled crop, is one of
the most destructive forms of land
utilization practiced in the United
States. A report from the Southern
Forest Experiment Station at Holly
Springs. Mississippi, shows that the
time required to remove six inches
of top soil from a 10 per cent slope
under oak forest conditions is 40,000
years; from a Bermuda grass plot.
10,000 years: from a plot where cot-
ton is planted on the contour. 28
years, and from a plot where cotton I
is planted in sloping rows, 10 years.
“Since six inches of top soil gen-
erally represents nearly all of the
really productive soil providing by
nature, one can readily understand
why many farms no longer provide
a living. The decline in production
certainly is not a case of “lazy nig-
gers” or “poor white trash” but es-
sentially a case of soil depletion.
“Government aut horities’ still think
in terms of maintaining King Cotton
on his throne. It is true that the
AAA has aimed at some acreage re-
duction. but at the same time the
growing of cotton on the better
lands of the South is encouraged by
price pegging. In other words, the
government is encouraging the de-
struction of the remaining produc-
tive land in the South by offering
upwards of double the world market
price for cotton produced under its
‘plan’.”
"The ‘Domestic Allotment Plan’
cdvocated by many leaders in the
Cotton Belt has even less to offer
than the present government plan.
The main argument presented for
this plan is that it would Increase
the cotton acreage and thus keep
more people cn the farm—growing
cotton! More slaves and paupers
wasting our greatest heritage, soil
and water!
“In the best interest of the Cotton
Belt, the government should stop
immediately all payments for the
growing of cotton. Any form of gov-
ernment aid to agriculture should be
to those who grow soil building
crops, or to those who save the land
‘Leto’s’ for Sore Gums
Are your gums superficially sore?
Do your gums cause you annoyance?
Druggists return money if first bottle
of “LETO'S” fails to satisfy.
NOCONA, TEXAS OUR DRUG STORE
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Lasseter and
children were in Gainesville Wed-
nesday.
Mrs. G. B. Phinps of Nocona vis-
ited her son. H. T. Phipps and fam-
ily. from Tuesday until Thursday of
last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Deering of
New Mexico are visiting his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Deering, this
week.
and Mrs H. T. Phipps and dauirh-
visited Mrs. Ella Little of Nocona
Thursday.
These attending the funeral of A.
M. Stout Sunday were Mrs R. H.
Lasseter and children, Mr. and Mrs.
C. T. Lasseter and children. Mr.
and Mrs. H. T. Phipps an ddaugh-
ters.
Mr. and Mrs. Billie Roberts and
children of Electra spent the week-
end with his parents. Mr. and Mrs.
M. M. Roberts and family.
These visiting Mrs. R. H. Lasseter
Tuesday were Mrs. A. A. Brown and
Bessie Phipps.
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Mesdames Sam Crownover, J. O.
Little, and J. H. Barnes were Wich-
ita Falls visitors Saturday.
nearly every farm. Sweet clover
sown with oats in the spring, as is
done in much of the Middle West,
deserves consideration in the drier
part of the Cotton Belt. Legumes
not only serve as cover crops and
soil builders but may also serve as
a basis for an expansion of the
stock industry. Dairying in
ticular is lagging far behind in
plying the needs of the South,
stead of spending millions of
lars a year trying to find new
for that wasteful crop called cotton,
we should discourage its growth and
develop new products from such
crops as will conserve the soil, water
and human resources.
“It may be argued that, this coun-
try needs some seven million bales
of cotton annually. There are al-
ready several substitutes for cotton,
produced from wood and various
other products, which do not destroy
the soil. Rayon
taking the place
bales of cotton.
Germany, Italy
rapidly becoming independent of the
cotton producing regions. If all our
efforts were directed toward the
development of substitutes for cot-
ton. we could also, in a few years
become independent of this destruc-
tive crop.
“The fact that a good living can
be made from crops other than cot-
ton is demonstrated every year in
many communities. As long ago as
1919 the people of Enterprise. Ala.,
erected a monument to the boll
weevil, whose advent had caused
their prosperity—prosperity from di-
versified farming.
“A farmer tenant in Central
Texas who owns 208 acres of land
and rents 90 acres is proving that
a variety of well selected crops in-
sure a good year-round income.
His variety of income includes 120
acres of com, wheat, oats, cotton and
feed crops, (income not stated);
sheep and goats—one year's profit.
$1,300; cattle—sale of cream and
calves—average $350 per year; swine
I —average income $200 per year: tur-
keys—$200 to $600 per year; chickens
—average $175 per year. He also
boasts a wide variety of garden
products, part of which are irri-
gated from a small artificial lake on
the farm. These include pecans
(460 budded paper shell) 3.000 to
15,000 pounds per year—usually
worth about 20 cents per pound;
blackberries—$40 to $800 per year:
tomatoes—average $240 per year:
cabbage—average $65 per year:
melons and cantalope—average $70
per year; turnips—$800 to $1,100 per
year; peaches—average $150 per
year: pop corn—$50 to $100 per year;
other garden truck average $50 per
year.
“While the cast just cited is at
present unusual, it need not remain
so. If everyone in the Cotton Belt
could forget the “good old days” of
King Cotton, the transition to a
much more intelligent and profitable
system of land utilization would
soon become a reality. Marketing
of surplus products is at present a
problem except for the really enter-
prising farmer, but that can be sim-
plified by proper methods of distri-
bution in the community, the nation
and the world in general. Those
who are unwilling or incapable of
adjusting to the new regime should
be given a chance to be absorbed in
an enlarged system of land and
water conservation, such as it now
carried on by our CCC Camps and
other organizations. There is no ex-
cuse for any unemployed anywhere
in the United States. Millions of
men will be needed for hundreds
of years before we can restore a
‘perfect balance' such as nature at
one Ume maintained in this great
land of ours.
“King Cotton is already on his way
out! Let's give him a shove!”
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with grass or trees. The growing of
such crops as soy beans and tung
cil should receive special attention
ct this time because we import mil-
lie ns of dollars worth of oil annually
. 93 million in 1938). Legumes, such
mulgated that, without cotton, the I as alfalfa and clover, are needed on
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Etter
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Friday, June 30, 1939
Ernest Curlin
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JONES BUILDING — NOCONA. TEXAS
Office Phone 130, Res. 152
Conservation of
Texas Wildlife
Fish rescue work, of which much ;
is done each year by the Texas
Game. Fish and Oyster Commission,
has started. State Game Warden
Sam Turner of Waco reports the
rescue of 21.000 fish from an old
channel of the Bosque River. A
large party of Waco sportsmen co-
operated in the rescue work. All
the members of the finny tribe saved
were placed in the Bosque below the
Lake Waco dam.
Receding waters followed heavy
rains and streams, lakes and bar pits
drying up during the summer
months strands millions of fish in
Texas. During the fiscal year of
1937-38 game department employees
rescued a total of 2,846,279 fish and
nlaced them in rivers, streams and
lakes of which there was no danger
of going dry. The fish rescued to-
taled nearly as many as were pro-
duced in the state fish hatcheries
during the same period, 3,068,705
crappie, cat, bass and bream being
propagated by the hatcheries and
used to stock waters of the state.
Hcw'd you like to catch a six-foot
forty-eight pound alligator on your
trotline? That is just wnat a party
cf four Belton fishermen did on the
Lampasas River in Bell county south
of Belton recently, State Game War.
den K. S. Hull reports.
The alligator, far from its natural j
habitat, which in Texas is deep East
Texas, became tangled in the fisher-
men's lines and had drowned when
the four anglers pulled it from the
water.
'Gators are occasionally found in |
Central and North Texas, but they
are not native and have generally
escaped from pens.
Due to cooperation obtained by
State Game Warden F. O. Lytton !
the Valley section of Texas will have
thousands more whitewinged doves
this year. The warden found em-
ployees of a huge ranch operating
a brush machine with the intention
of pushing down 2,000 acres of brush.
Warden Lytton persuaded the land-
owners to wait a month before de- |
straying the brush, in which thous- I
ands of whitewings were nesting.
They will now have ample time to
raise the young before their habitat
is destroyed.
Early reports from several sec-
tions of Texas to the game depart-
ment are to the effect that quail
and doves are prospering. Should
conditions during the remainder of
the rearing season continue good,
nimrods should have some excellent
sport his year.
The trapping of antelope, as car-
ried on by the game department in
the trans-Pecos region two months
i ago is being hailed by big game,
experts in a large number of states
' as the most successful proj set of its
kind ever attempted. More trap-
ping will be done this fall after the
young antelope have attained some
size, it is announced by Will J.
Tucker, executive secretary.
Antelope, strange as it may seem,
will not leap a fence higher than I
four feet. As a result, many ranches
of West Texas have become over-
populated with the fleet-footed ani-
mals, while other sections have none.
The antelope trapped were trans-
ported to ranges as far distant as
100 miles, thus stocking new terri-
tory and relieving some ranch owners
of having their range overgrazed
and having the animals under-
nourished.
However, the plains region is the
natural habitat of the antelope and
they will not thrive in wooded
areas. Therefore, no attempt will be
made by the game department to
stock any areas other than those of
the plains, but, should antelope con-
tinue to increase in numbers as they
have done in the last few years,
there is a possibility of an open
season on them not so many years
from now.
A dry land tortoise banded “IL E.
Roney—Oct. 13. 1914” was found
near Winkler. Texas, recently by
Jake Barker. Upon contacting Mr.
Roney he found that Roney had
branded the trutle 25 years ago and
had freed it less than a mile from
where it was found. The turtle war
liberated again.
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To preserve the vitamin C in to-
matoes when canning, do not expose
the cut tomatoes and juice to the air
any more than necessary, and cut
delay between the steps of prepar-
ing. precookings, processing, and
cooling to the minimum.
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Perry, F. L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1939, newspaper, June 30, 1939; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1209784/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.