The New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1946 Page: 2 of 8
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Colorado Gets Wheat Kins for
Fourth Time in Last 5 Years
By W. J. DRYDEN
WNU Farm KdHar.
While a new United States Wheat King has been crowned, the
state of Colorado still retains its place as the home of quality
wheat. For the fourth time in five years, the Pillsbury award
has been given to a wheat producer of Colorado.
Luther F. Givens. 43. Sterling.#
Colo., walked off with first honors
at the wheat contest held recently
at Chicago. His entry was Wichita
wheat, a strain developed at the
agricultural experiment station.
University of Colorado. The Wichita
wheat entered in the contest by Giv-
ens was of the hard red winter va-
riety which had a test weight of
64.8 pounds. The standard weight
of a bushel of wheat is 60 pounds.
The contest, held under the direc-
tion of the International Crop Im-
provement association and the vari-
ous state agricultural experiment
stations and colleges, had for its
judges Prof. R. F. Crim, Univer-
sity of Minnesota; Prof. J. C. Hack-
leman, University of Illinois; and
Prof. A. L. Clapp, Kansas State
agriculture college. Prof. K. E.
Beeson of Purdue university repre-
sented the co-operating organiza-
tions.
Givens operates an 80-acre farm,
raises hay, sugar beets, Hereford
cattle and hogs. His wife, Lena,
raises chickens. They have no chil-
dren. Both are equestrians, having
fine saddle horses, and are leaders
in a Sterling saddle club. Some 15
acres of the farm was devoted to
the development of the Wichita
strain of wheat.
Second place in the national con-
test went to R. E. Condon, Platte-
ville, Colo., with hard red spring
wheat with a test weight of 64.5
pounds per bushel, winning the na-
tional reserve award.
Other winners include D. F. Sak-
uth, Yuba City, Calif., for raising
the best hard white wheat; Ralph
Osborn. Culver. Ind., for best spring
red wheat; Appleton Brothers, Can-
andaigua, N. Y., best soft white
wheat; and William Frazen, Mapes,
N. D.
The contest was established in
1941. Since that time Colorado
wheat has four times taken the na-
tional honors, while Montana grain
once has scored first. Former Colo-
rado winners were George Hof-
mann, Iliff; Leo Lindstrom, Ster-
ling; and Jesse Powers, Henderson.
The Montana winner was L. E.
Peterson, Victoria, the winner in
1941.
RUNNER-UP ... for title of
"wheat king" went to R. E. Con-
don, Platteville, Colo. This is the
second year since 1941 that a Col-
orado grain grower won the na-
tional reserve award. His hard
red spring wheat weighed 4.5
pounds per bushel more than the
standard weight of wheat.
Indian Fighter
Dies at Tulsa;
His Age, 105
WHEAT KING ... of the United States. Lather F. Givens is shown
holding a sheaf of Wichita wheat with a sample of the threshed
grain nearby. The trophy he won in the competition is also shown.
The winning wheat was produced on his 80-acre farm southeast of
Sterling, Logan county, Colorado.
Some Surplus Goods
And Lund Available
To Farmers of U. S.
WASHINGTON.—War Assets cor-
poration, new agency handling sur-
plus war property, has announced
there will be no strictly agricultural
equipment declared surplus, al-
though certain types of equipment
such as tractors and trucks may
be converted to farm use.
The corporation has made plans
to establish a small organization
within the department of agricul-
ture to handle surplus goods which
may interest the farmer.
Here are some facts which may
Interest farmers. At latest count
there were still some 78,000 aeres
of surplus farm land out of an origi-
nal 100,000 aeres, for sale; there
is no barb wire, the demand exceed-
ing the supply by about 15 to 1;
there is a hemp and flax mill for-
merly operated by CCC at Hartford,
Wls., for sale; a large quantity of
telephone and telegraph material is
being offered and is at depots of
U. S. signal corps in Chicago; Lex-
ington, Ky.; Ogden, Utah; Atlan-
ta, Ga.; and Bellmead, N. I.
Born and Lived 71
Years on Same Farm
FAIRMONT, MINN. - When the
Fairmont Daily Sentinel got to won-
dering who had lived the longest
time on the same farm in this lo-
cality, Mrs. E. G. Swanson of Dun-
nell did a little investigating and
discovered that:
* Ellsworth Ziemer still lives on the
Lake Fremont farm where he was
born in 1895; C. L. Peterson still
farms the place where he was bom
in 1890; but top honors go to F. S.
E. Carlson, who was boro Decem-
ber, 1874, on a farm near Dunnell,
and still lives there with his wife
and son, making over 71 years on
the same farm.
' Champ Potato Grower
HARRISBURG, PA.—By produc-
ing 656 bushels of potatoes on a
measured acre, Mervin Hanes of
Stewardstown became Pennsyl-
vania’s champion potato grower for
1945.
The award was made to Hanes
by the growers’ co-operative at a
dinner held for him in Harris-
burg.
TULSA, OKLA.—During his life,
six wars were fought. He knew per-
sonally such historical characters as
General Custer, Geronimo, the In-
dian Apache chief, and Jesse James,
the outlaw. He recently died here
at the age of 105.
William Franklin Knight, who ob-
served his 105th birthday last Feb-
ruary 17, was born on a steamboat
at Louisiana, Mo. He went to Tex-
as in 1866 as an advance guard for
stage coaches. Later he rode for
the Wells-Fargo express from St.
Louis west.
He was wounded four times by
bullets and once when Comanche
Indians pierced his neck with ar-
rows. In September, 1870, after the
Comanches had burned telegraph
wires between the two cities. KnUght
rode from Fort Worth to El Paso,
carrying government messages. He
used 33 horses on the trip and slept
only two hours during the five days
it took.
In the early seventies, when buf-
falo roamed the southwest plains
country, Knight shipped as many as
10,000 buffalo hides at one time to
eastern markets.
Knight moved to Tulsa in 1918 and
was employed by a local transfer
company. He worked until he was
99 years of age before retiring. He
kept house for himself until forced
to enter a convalescent home be-
cause of infirmities. No immediate
relatives have been located.
One-Third of 0. S. Population
Has No Access to Libraries
WASHINGTON. — Two solons have stated that almost one-
third of the people of the United States, or “more than 35,000,000
persons, nearly all of them in rural areas, have no access to
libraries.’*
Because of that situation, the#---—•
lawmakers, Sen. Lister Hill of Ala-'
bam a and Rep. Emily Taft Doug-
las of Illinois, have Introduced iden-
tical bills simultaneously in the
house and senate calling for annual
federal grants of $25,000 to each
state for use of state library asso-
ciations in rural areas.
The bill also empowers states to
provide additional funds up to a
maximum of $50,000 annually for
such work, which the federal gov-
ernment would match.
While no federal control or ad-
ministration is involved, annual re-
ports would be called for and states
would qualify for funds by prepar-
ing plans and submitting them to
the United States commissioner of
education.
The statistics show there are 586
counties without any public library
service. The greatest number, 150
counties, are in Texas. Kentucky
is second with 63 counties with no
library, and Louisiana and Missis-
sippi are third, with 35 counties
each.
In only 11 states does every coun-
ty have a public library. They are
Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Maine,
Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersey, New York, Oregon,
Rhode Island and Vermont.
Osage Ranchers to
Hold Meet in Jane
PAWHUSKA, OKLA.—The 10th
annual convention of the Osage Cat-
tlemen’s association, an event
known throughout the Southwest,
has been scheduled for June 21 and
22, it has been announced by Gart-
ner Drummond, president of the as-
sociation.
Held in the heart of a famous
bluegrass pastureland, the meeting
will feature a barbecue and a cow-
boy dance. This year a large at-
tendance is expected when cattle-
men from several surrounding
states will hear experts on modern
ranching methods.
There is one fly in the ointment,
however, and President Drummond
is scratching his head for an an-
swer. With a much larger at-
tendance than ever before expected,
finding sufficient accommodations
is developing into a major problem.
The hospitality of this community
has never failed in the past, and
Drummond is banking on the neigh-
borliness of Pawhuska more than
ever, he admits. Anyway, cattlemen
can bunk most any place if they
have to, Drummond states.
Servlee nt e r
found seven wild
puppies neat
Hollywood,
brought them tc
canteen so they
would have a
home.
THE NEW ULM
MAY 16, 1946
WNU WasSiastaa Burami
MIS Xya St.. N. IF.
Stiffer Attitude Toward
• High-Handed Unions Seen
'T'HE “anti-Petrillo" is now the
x law of the land, signed by the
President. And that signature
marks a milestone of some kind,
for this reporter believes that de-
spite the fact that we have a week-
kneed, supine congress, the law will
mark the turning point in govern-
ment relations with labor abuses.
This so-called Petrillo bill is a
slap on the wrist for Mr. James
Caesar Petrillo, ’head of the musi-
cians’ union, but it eliminates abuses
in only one industry, “featherbed-
ding” in the radio industry. It
permits the same abuses to be prac-
ticed by Mr. Petrillo in other indus-
tries . . . notably motion pictures
and theaters, and it leaves other
unions free to perform the same
practices that Mr. Petrillo is pun-
ished for in the radio industry.
For instance, the law says that
Mr. Petrillo cannot levy a royalty
or a tax on phonograph records
used for broadcasting, but the union
can still levy this royalty on every
record you play in your home. Mr.
John L. Lewis is at this very mo-
ment seeking to levy a tonnage tax
on every ton of coal, 10 cents a ton,
to provide a huge fund for his min-
ers’ union. But Mr. Lewis is free
to do that since the “anti-Petrillo”
law doesn't apply to the miners’
union.
But a congress which gave in to
political expediency in its worst
sense, and played checkers with the
security of the nation in the emas-
culated draft bill, and which indi-
cated such utter stupidity and dis-
regard for the welfare and opinions
of the rank and file of the American
people in passage of the vivisected
OPA bill in the house, probably
could not be expected to take up
the abuses of labor union leaders in
one fell swoop.
Uniont Are Neceuary
Your Home Town Reporter be-
lieves in labor unions. They are
necessary in our American way of
life, since without them the Amer-
ican workers would be at the mercy
of greedy employers. Were it not
for labor unions, a man’s toil would
still be a commodity to be bought
and sold, to be used or disregarded
at the whim of any capitalist. But
the abuse of these benefits which
have been granted to labor by cer-
tain labor bosses and in which these
bosses even defy the government of
the United States, should most def-
initely be curbed. Public opinion
polls indicate that the rank and file
of the American people hold to this
opinion and the folks who live in
the small towns and the rural areas
are particularly incensed at prac-
tices and unlicensed affrontery of
some of these leaders.
The Case bill, approved here by
some of the farm organizations, will
die aborning in the senate and in
the senate labor committee. A ma-
jority of this committee has had the
temerity to propose a measure
which would punish unions seeking
to extort money from farmers by
coercion or force and to prevent
farmers from transporting perish-
able farm products to market.
This has happened in Pennsyl-
vania, in New York, and in other
sections wherein farmers* trucks
have been overturned, or the farm-
er has been forced to pay tribute
to unions to drive his truck of prod-
uce into the market place. But
what about the farmer who seeks to
transport nonperishable products?
Why not include that in the bill for
it is most certainly as wrong for
anions to prohibit the hauling of logs
to market as it is to levy tribute
for lettuce. And why not at the
same time protect others besides
farmers?
A Tribute on Every Ton
Now the entire country is just
about to pay tribute to John L. Lew-
is before he consents to let his min-
ers mine coal for industry and to
heat your houses. Mr. Lewis struts
from the headquarters of the Unit-
ed Mine Workers of America, a
stone-facaded building about a block
from my office here, and which re-
sembles nothing more than an ex-
clusive Union League club or a Car-
negie library, and issues an edict...
an edict to the Mine Owners, to
Industry, to the American Public
and to the Government of the Unit-
ed States . . . and he will probably
get away with it.
Wages for his miners is a sec-
ondary issue. What he wants most
is that royalty of 10 cents a ton
which would mean some 50 to 60
million dollars a year in Mr. Lewis’
coffers for welfare or whatever he
determines to use it for. So what
difference 400,000 miners out of
work for three, or five or six weeks,
or why should Mr. Lewis care if
members of other unions in steel,
autos and a dozen other industries
are thrown out of work by his coal
strike ... or that production is
stopped and reconversion slowed?
Mr. Lewis wants to strut his power.
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The New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 16, 1946, newspaper, May 16, 1946; New Ulm, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1216050/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nesbitt Memorial Library.