Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1968 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 13
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1968 DELL CITY, TEXAS 79837 7
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COUNTY FAIR OCT. 4-5-6
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WHITE GRAND
HUGE AGRICULTURAL
DISPLAY
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FILM TO BE SHOWN
ANNUAL MEETING
SWIG Purchase
Of Paymater
Cleared
MARSHALL
Congressman Richard C.
White will be Grand Marshall
of the Fair Parade Oct. 5.
FIRST BALE
The J. D. Lee Farm picked
the first bale of cotton Sept-
ember 23, for the 1968 season1
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Farming in
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Dell Valley - The Agricul-
ture Section of the Dell Vall-
ey Hudspeth County Fair will.
be considerably larger this
year. More spacfe has been
allotted for displays and ex-
hibits of produce grown in
Hudspeth County.
Members of the Agriculture
Committee assisting Chair-
man Deron Kasparian are:
Guy McCoy, Lendol Barker,
Michael Lynch, Burt Brown-
field, Doyle Ziler and Keith
Richardson.
It is expected that grain
sorghums, cotton and vege-
tables will have many entries.
More nuts and fruit entries
will come in this year.
A section in the Fair Build-
ing is being reserved for
the sale of tomatoes, chiles
and other produce in season
at that time.
Hudspeth CountvY/ nt
and DELL VALLEY REVIEW O' \ CAZUlW
City, <S«Lvia Oca and HuxUpciA Caunty
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Las actividades locales en el
valle de Dell City se han con-
centrado en los preparatives
para la Feria del Condado,
cuya celebracion sera los di as
4, 5 y 6 de Octubre, en el edi-
ficio de la feria que esta lo-
calizado dos millas al Oeste
del crucero principal, donde
tambien se encuentran los
corrales para los eventos de
rodeo, en la presente celebra-
cion se esta incluyendo la in-
stalacion de una tienda tipo
antiguo (de las que habia an-
tes de los supermercados) y
en ella se van a vender, "a
como saiga el marchante",
to da clase de articulos. Esta
tienda da oportunidad a todos
los residentes del condado a
participar en la fiesta de una
manera directa yen un am-
biente propio para familias.
No se trata de ganar dinero,
pues cualquier tipo de mercan-
cia que se presente es una col-
aboracion gratuita, pero pro-
duce el mejor pago de todos
que consiste en la satisfacc-
>On de hacer algo por la com-
uni dad en que uno vive y por
el condado en general, porque
la forma en que ha ido cre-
ciendo la Feria indica que
en un futuro cere ano va a
venir a ser un evento que a-
traera personas y cases com-
erciales de muchas millas
a la redonda.
En la Feria del Condado se
da oportunidad a todo mundo
de exhibir toda clase de ob~
jetos: cuadros, tejidos, orna-
mentos, pasteles, jaleas,
melones, nueces y doda clase
de productos agricolas y gana
deros y se otorgan listones de
primero, segundo o tercer lu-
gar asi como listones expeciales.
Este ano tendremos concurso
y exhibicion de cab alios cuar-
terones y el evento sera de
caracter oficial, pudiendo los
participantes ganar puntos.
Tambien se ha trabajado por
obtener reconocimiento oficial
en concurso de ganaderia.
Con lo anterior queda invita-
do todo mundo a olvidarse de
problemas y aburrimientos y
empezar a pensar acerca de
que product© puede hacer para
traerlo a la feria y si por al-
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Children, dogs, bicycles,
etc., are urged to enter the
Fair Parade this year.
hand picking can be done on the earliest planted
than their requirements. The first"bale of the season was picked
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Cotton on the lighter land is
showing signs of drought, but
on the heavy land, plants are
still green and upright. All is
showing encouraging signs of
maturity.
No insects have been appar-
ent for weeks and no sign of
the pink bollworm whose pre-
sence was expected by this
time.
Grain sorghums that are still
green are being irrigated to
put good weight into the grain.
Most of the grain is mature a
and harvest will start in force
when the moisture goes below
13%.
In order to speed drying and
start harvest, some spraying
has been done by airplane to
dry out or kill green weeds
that are showing in spots. This
also can be done on clean grain
fields where the plant is green
and the grain is red and mature.
These fields usually have too
high a moisture on the grain
to combine.
Com silage is still being har-
vested by forage harvesters
and all is being put in pit si-
los for winter feeding.
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Dell Valley - Cotton picking to a very limited amount got started
this week. Some hand picking can be done on the earliest planted
areas, especially where land is light or where plants got less water
than their requirements. The first bale of the season was picked
this week from the J. D. Lee Farm in Dell Valley.
Alfalfa cutting and baling
is steady - someone is always
harvesting hay and depending
on market, it is either shipped
out or stacked on the farm for
later sale. Local consumption
of alfalfa hay is improving ev-
ery year. The quality of hay
produced has been excellent
with the good weather.
Cattle in the valley have pl-
enty of feed and pastures are
in good shape for the winter
months. Some cattle are on
irrigated grasses and alfalfa.
Dell Valley -An educational
film on Watersheds will be
shown in conjunction with the
Supervisors' Election for Sub-
division No. 5 of El Paso-Huds-
peth Soil 8 Water Conservation
District, according to Ray
McCoy, present Supervisor
from this area. The election
is to be held at the Dell City
Community Center at 10;30
AM, October 8, 1968.
The film, "How Liering
Valley Saved Itself from Dis-
aster" will be shown promptly
at 10:30. The Supervisor El-
ection will follow immediately.
This is a film recently re-
leased and should be of inter-
est to everyone. Everyone is
urged to come and vote on
the Supervisor which will re-
present this District for the
next 5 years.
Dell Valley - The Ninth Annu-
al Dell Valley Hudspeth Coun-
ty Fair will be held October
4-5-6 at the new Fair Grounds.
The huge Fair Building will
be jammed full of interesting
exhibits of all kinds. The
Spanish Food and Bar-b-que
will be served from the Fair
Building this year. A new fea-
ture inside the building will be
a Country Store where hand-
made goods of all kinds will
be sold.
Outside exhibits will consist
of the latest in Farm Machinery,
late model cars and trucks,
rides, livestock and barnyard
animals and foul.
An old-time fiddlers' contest
will be held Friday night. On
Saturday morning there will
be a Mule Race at the Arena.
A parade will be held down-
town Dell City at 1:00 PM.
On Saturday afternoon there
will be roping events at the
Arena.
Ford Dickson and his band
will play for the Fair Dance
Saturday night at the Communi-
ty Building.
An Approved Quarterhorse
Show is a big feature of the
Fair this year. It will be held
Sunday at the Fair Grounds.
Exhibits will remain in place
until Sunday at 5:00 PM.
Western Area
Cotton News
Far Western cotton markets
took a bearish turn, accord-
ing to the Consumer and Mar-
keting Service, USDA. Tra-
ding was light. Prices were
lower.
Domestic mills continued to
purchase a moderate amount
of San Joaquin Valley growths.
Demand was best for Midd-
ling 1-3/32", 3. 5 to 4. 9 mike.
Prices for prompt shipment
figured back to a local spot
price of about 31. 75 cents. A
small lot of Middling 1-3/32",
3.5 to 4. 9, sold for 32. 00
cents in the Fresno market.
The first test of the Phoenix
market for new-crop spot cott-
on found very little buyer in-
terest. Growers offered less
than a hundred bales but no
sales were made. High bid
for Middling Light Spotted
1-1/16", 3.5 to 4.9 mike,
was around 24. 50. cents.
Trading practically stopped
at El Paso after a brief flyirv
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The Rio Grande Electric
Cooperative, Ipc., will hold
its 23rd Annual Membership
Meeting in Brackettville on
* Saturday, September 28, 1968,
The meeting is scheduled at ;
the Fort Clark Guest Ranch in
Brackettville. Registration
for the members will begin at
9:30 AM with the business
portion of the meeting starting
at 10:00 AM at the old thea-
ter building on Fort Clark. The
business portion of the meeting
will be followed immediately
by the annual barbecue which i
is held at the swimming pool
on the Guest Ranch.
Several Dell City residents
will attend this annual meet-
ing.
Pecos, Tex. -The way has
been cleared here for the pur-
chase of Anderson-Clayton
Co., cotton oil mill operations
in Pecos and El Paso by the
Southwestern Irrigated Cotton
Growers Association (SWIG).
Stockholders, owning one-
half of Pecos Cotton Oil Co.,
in conjunction with Anderson-
Clayton's Paymaster Oil Mill
Co., which owns the other
half of the plant, voted late
Thursday for approval of the
sale of tihe operations to SWIG,
a producer coop, headquar-
tered in El Paso.
SWIG will continue operations
of the Pecos plant while clos-
ing down the Paymaster Oil
Mill in El Paso, a SWIG offi-
cial said.
"We anticipate taking over
Oct. 1, " Ed Breihan, SWIG
general manager who attended
the Pecos stockholders meeting
with other SWIG officials, said,
"We have to get into operation
with the fall season coming
up. "
Breihan said the Pecos oil
mill is an efficient growing
operation - "they have a top-
notch mill down there. " He
said SWIG will retain Bob
Bickley, Paymaster's top man
in Pecos, as manager of the
mill here.
"SWIG has the support of the
producers in the whole Trans-
Pecos area, " he said.
A meeting was held at 8
p. m. Tuesday in Pecos'
Community Public Service
Building to explain SWIG poli-
cies and operations to cotton
growers from Reeves, Pecos,
and Ward counties who are
served by the Pecos Mill.
In El Paso, Paymaster mill
will be closed to consolidate
its seed volume into SWIG's
Farmers Cooperative Oil Mill
in the Upper Valley. "It's
purpose is to benefit cotton
producers - all of them, "
Breihan said.
He stated it is a step toward
putting enough volume into
the two area plants to make
them efficient and profitable
for member growers, rather
than having the volume divi-
ded by three plants.
He said SWIG will probably
hire many of the Paymaster
Mill personnel here while
Anderson-Clayton will ab-
sorb its top personnel, or
executives.
The transaction, estimated
at from $1. 5 million to $2
million, will add to the re-
cent rapid expansion of SWIG
which last year bought out the
Farmers Compress Co. and its
■ warehouse at Las Cruces, N. M.
It also owns a large port ware-
house in Houston,, in addition
to its warehouse, marketing
and oil mill facilities on Doni-
phan Drive.
Anderson-Clayton is one of
the agricultural giants of the
South and Southwest with
additional facilities for pro-
cessing and marketing crops,
plus distributing supplies to
farmers in Mexico. It is head-
quartered in Houston.
Dell Valley - Grain sorghum varieties shown together here are
Pavmaster Pawnee and DeKalb 44B. Both are quick maturing varie-
ties requiring less than 100 days to make. They are on trial here
to be later used in a double cropping program with winter grains.
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Dell Valley -Sudan grass, hybrid and hybrid grain sorghum are
showing outstanding growth and quality on the Guy McCoy farm
south of Dell City, Texas. Sudan will be green chopped and sor-
ghum will be harvested for grain. All stubble and residue will be
grazed by cattle.
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