The De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1957 Page: 2 of 10
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Boss Johnson Fertilizer & Seed
WHAT!
(50 LB. BAGS)
Yes, Topper Brand Fertilizer will all be
put in 50 lb. Bags this year
We alio have plenty of high qaaiity peanut seed, in several sizes.
After the recent completion of one of the moot modem fertilizer
phnts to be bad, We are m a petition to furnish yon a quality
product that is surpassed by none. If its fertilizer you want we
can please you.
W. H. Smith Dry Goods
Coys Cleaners
Bills Service Station
Mahan Chevrolet Co.
Weaver Drug
Boss Johnson
Mason’s Groc. & Station
D. D. Rolland, Humble Station
Cogbum Texaco Station
Terrill Pontiac Co.
Woodie Powell Humble Station
In Downing - Downing Sinclair Sta.
In Desdemona -
Williams Humble Station
In Lingleville - Moss Garage
Weeping Oak Drive Inn
Are being given by the following mer-
chants who wish to serve you better.
Theatre Tickets Good at the
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De Leon Free Press, De Leon, Texas, May 2, 1957
DeLeon Free Press
AU obituaries, cards of thanks, church notices where an ad
mission is charged will be printed at the usual classified rate.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or repu
tation of any person, firm or corporation that may appear in the
De Leon Free Press will’be gladly and fully corrected upon being
brought to the attention of the publisher.
SUBSCRIPi'ION PRICE: $2.00 per year in Comanche and adjoining
counties. $4 00 per year elsewhere.
Mrs. Jack Stricklin, Jr......
Miss Dollie Paine_______
Mrs. Gertrude Joiner_____
A. J. STRICKLIN, JR., Publisher
Entered as second class matter at the post office in De Leon, Tex*,
under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Published every Thursday at the De Leon Free Press office at
\ De Leon, Texas.
________________ . . Advertising
----- Society Editor and Circulation
--------Bookkeeper
nesting quails and poultry. The ad-
dition of fire to its name is some
indication of the power of the sting.
Combinations of stilbestrol and
antibiotics in yearling steer rations
gave higher, more economical gains
and heavier carcasses on extended
feeding trials than either stilbestrol
or antibiotics alone, report Texas
Agricultural Experiment Station an
imal husbandmen. The feeding
trials were conducted at the Spur
substation.
The imported fire ant has been
reported in Anderson, Tyler, Jasper,
Newton, Hardin, Orange, Jefferson,
Liberty, Chambers, Harris and Ft.
Bend counties in Texas. Exten-
sion entomologists caution farmers
and ranchers in other counties to be
on the alert for this troublesome
pest. It damages many vegetable
crops, has been knowm. to attack
unprotected newborn calves and
pigs and is especially destructive to
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DISTRICT NEWS
OUR SOIL * OUR STRENGTH
all three point hook-up tractors.
Those of you who are planning to
plant blue panic, sorghum almum,
K. R. bluestem and other small
seed grasses should inspect the
grass seed planter at the local SCS
office headquarters. Arrangements
can be made there to use the plant-
er. Ground should be prepared for
grass planting within the next few
weeks, as it seems that we will have
plenty of moisture.
In view of the fact that we have
had an abundance of rain this
spring and with the promise of
more, the Supervisors of the Upper
Leon Soil Conservation District
would like to suggest to their co-
operator farmers that this should
be a good year to save some of
their vetch and rye plantings for
seed harvest.
Several cooperators have already
decided to do this. Mr. C- T. Morris
Yye is shoulder high and he believes
that it will make close to fifteen
bushels per acre. Wade George of
the Round Grove group said that
he had a field of oats, rye, and
vetch that he will harvest for seed.
Since it looks like we might have
a rainy cycle beginning, the super-
visors also suggest that more vetch
should be planted with the rye this
fall. In the past few years, our vetch
plantings have decreased consider-
ably due to dry weather conditions.
Seed plots of vetch and rye might
be a good possibility when we be-
gin planting cover crops this fall.
The supervisors have now bought
a grass seed planter, which will fit
Nothing changes the line of a
man’s thought quicker than spad-
ing up fishing worms while digging
in the garden.
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LOCAL STUDENTS MAH
TARLETON HONOR ROU
Students from De Leoni
the nine-weeks spring ho|
at Tarleton State College J
rey Ann Gray, business add
tion (‘‘A” Honor Roll); 1
trey Carl Stephens, engjl
Louise Decker, home eel
Linda Mull, liberal arts; R|
Guire. medical technologJ
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already have filed your td
for 1956. The only thing J
do about 1956 records nJ
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story. You ought to keep]
to support every deduct™
1957 income tax return. It J
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choose either a standard J
or an itemized deduction]
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FINCHER S FEED & PRODUCE
Phone 2025 —:— De Leon, Texas
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A weakly publie aervlea feature from
the Taxas State Department of Health.
HEHRY A. HOLLE, M.D., Commissioner
ABOUT YOUR HEALTH
Rd?
iation and Texas Agricultural Ex-
tension Service, has undertaken to
acquaint as many persons as possi-
ble with exactly what those precau-
tions are. The project has taken
this form:
Kits of material on every con-
ceivable phase of insecticide usage,
including the composition of pois-
ons and their relative toxicity, and
a description of insects and mites
each is effective against, have been
made available for physicians, vet-
erinarians, and county agents. Also
contained in the kits are guide
sheets listing laboratories prepared
to perform highly complicated
blood tests for cholinestrerase ac-
tivity, how specimens should be
prepared, and the Limits of expos-
ure to potent insecticides.
All the information is the latest
{obtainable, condensed to bare es-
tsentials for quick reading and re-
:rence. The intention is to make
... I every
count agent an information cenv
ter in the safe use of economic
poisons.
-Still. the burden of safe use will
always be cn the person behind the
spray gun- He is the one who must
follow the instructions on the man-
ufacturers’ label. He is the one
who must guard other people and
tosmtoeb agufott wind drifts con-
taining spray. He is the one who
must make sure h- is gloved and
basked and properly clothed before
ussat the fxnsons. He is the one
who must be alert to spillage or
ssAaktion.
He is the one who stands to be
executed by his own weapon.
farm management specialist, says a
careful budget analysis is most
helpful for discovering small losses
in the business. Well-kept records
are a must in fighting the cost-price
squeeze.
AUSTIN — Between now and
kail, insecticides in back yard gar-
dens will fog the air like smoke as
the annual battle between gardner
and garden pests is joined in ear-
nest. Farmers will fight with spray
planes and aerosol mists as a sum
mer sun, brings maturity to insect-
vulnerable field crops.
Inevitable, the insect will lose A
single breach of lethal spray, a sin-
gle drop on his tiny body, a single
bite of spray-covered green and
his doom is sealed. He has a single
consolation—a grim, but satisfying
one: his executioner, being human,
is liable to the human disease of
carelessness Which could mean
that the man behind the spray gun
stands a fair chance of being him-
sdf a victim of the very weapon
Ke employs against the insects.
So it is that the executioner be-
comes the executed. Modern insec-, ,___
tickles and miticides—including the ,feL ___
deacly organic phosphates —y alj office of every doctor and
low slight margin for error. Im-I-—- --—• — • »
properly used, they have a high'
toxicity for warm-blood animals—■
including humans—as they have
for insects '
Does their danger restrict their
use? Yes, but only to a certain aaJ
tent Skilled doctors and chemical
'engnieers in the State Health' De-
t’s Division of Occupation*
h, while acknowledging titi
____of careless use, say: “Any
pmiuu, however toxic, can be used
wA safety when proper precast^
tian are taken.” 1
It to for this reason that the Staid
Department of Health, in coopera-1
tion with the Texas Medical Assoc-
Wodem fanning is an expensive
butinoss for it requires a high out-
lay of monies for maintenance to
say Mlhing of teh large initial m-
vestmYnt. C. H. Bates, exiansfoq
For Feed Purposes
Good, bright holed peanuts grown in Oklahoma for
Farmer’s Stock. These peanuts graded better than 70% SI
harvest time and total kernel content is very high.
This Ugh protein feed for only 170-00 per ton, f.o.b.
Texas.
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De Leon Telephone Compan
By E. F. Stephen, Mgr.
FARMERS STOCK PEANUTS
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Your new directory dated May 1st, 1957, will be delivered I
soon. When you receive your book place it in a handy placi
your Telephone and destroy ail previous issues. The boo
contain the usual yellow page for convenient buying and
from local merchant advertising. Helpful suggestions and
information pertaining to your dial telephone will also be in
in the new issue.
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GORMAN PEANUT COMPANY
Phone 135 —:— Gorman, Texas
We have finished installation of new switching equipment '
will include many new fines and about twice our battery «
De Leon’s Trade Terrtory is now lined with telephones as
sure you have noticed that you can telephone any one you I
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We have Bain Seed, also Span-1
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The De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 1957, newspaper, May 2, 1957; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1260319/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.