Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 24, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME ONE
WEDNESDAY APRIL 24, 195 7 •
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ARMY AND NEW MEXICO IN CLASH
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OVER MISSILE RANGE LAND GRAB
County Treasurer
VISIT SONS IN DELL CITY
Tell it to your local paper.
Box
Holder
First Cotton For
1957 Coming Up
Tomato Acreage
Quota Is Short
Boys Group Is
Organized Here
on
of
New
road-block
Tiets-
Larry
and
As-
as
SHAVINGS
from the
WHITTLERS’ BENCH
DELL VALLEY REVIEW
.Dell City, Texas—The Center of 35,000 Irrigated Acres
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£—
NUMBER THIRTY-SIX
acre in
; time
early
on the
office
NEW TYPE SORGHUM CROP WILL
GET TRY-OUT IN DELL VALLEY
spent
in Dell
sons’
Mal-
and
and
barring
bad weather, most of the Vai
ley’s seed will be in the ground
within two week.
Tiets-
Ronnie
John
Ray-
Gene Bryant,
Johnny Gentry,
Dick Zimmer-
Jerry Tucker, Joe
worth, Curtis Dunston,
Collier, Ronnie Barker
Wayne Perry.
The Brotherhood President,
Jerry Tucker, emphasizes that
membership in the new group
is open to anyone regardless
of church affiliations.
Farm Bureau To
Have Family "Night
Members of the recently or-
ganized Baptist Brotherhood,
set up to provide group acti-
vities for the young boys of
the community, have announc-
ed the forming of a club known
as the Ambassadors to include
youngsters from eight to tour-
ers here are hopeful that
unusually early start of
crop this year will mean
outstanding production.
Planters are still busy
indications aire that.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Fore-
man of Idalou, Texas,
the Easter week-end
City visiting with their
families, Mr. and Mrs.
colm Foreman and Mr.
Mrs. Bud O. Foreman.
You know, after living on
this planet for 39 (?) years,
the antics of the younger gene-
ration very jseldom startle us.
But, the other day, we got .a bit
of a shock. We dropped over
to the town’s tonsorial parlor
to get our monthly hair-cut and
found somebody ahead of us.
Didn t pay much attention at
first and just sat down and
started reading a 1953 edition
(Continue on page 8)
Hudspeth County closed
the first quarter of 195 7 with
a total of $73,512.10, accord-
ing to County Treasurer, Mary
Clifford who presented her re-
port to the board of commis-
sioners at its last meeting.
The report in detail is pu-
blished elsewhere in this issue
block structure measuring 24x of the REVIEW.
j The total is made up of the
following fund balances:
Jury Fund, $10861.59;
Road and Bridge Maintentnce
Fund, $2707.24: Officers Sa-
lary Fund, $1084.16; El Paso
H. Bonds Funds, $4821.96;
Lateral Fund, $21.39.
Just when the Army had ap-
parently gotten several Otero
County ranchers out of its hair
and was proceeding to put the
much publicized McGregor
Guided Missile Range in ope-
ration, it now appears that the
state of New Mexico has
thrown a road-block in the
way.
At
bert J.
The decisive thing is not the
type of armaments used, not
the state of disarmament; the
dicisive thing is the state of
the spirit.
With temperatures ranging
in the eighties for several days
last week, Dell Valley’s first
195 7 cotton began coming
through the ground and farm-
the
the
an
With its drive to secure
pledges of sufficient acreage in
Dell Valley for the planting of
tomatoes falling short of its
goal, the local vegetable grow-
ers committee were making $
last minute attempt this week
to work out plans with the Sun
Garden Company of Abilene
for ai compromise with that
concern so that local growers
might get under way this year
on a somewhat smaller scale
that was originally planned.
Lew Ayers of Midland, Tex-
as, owner of a farm 'northwest
of Dell City, who is vitally in-
terested in'the tomato project,
cam'le here Sunday and confer-
red with George McConnell,
chairman of the local growers
committee.
According to McConnell,
only about 360 acres l.«..— — — ——
secured to date and this falls
short of the 600 acres which
the Sun Garden Company had
stated they would need to be-
come interested, in the
Valley project.
The two, McConnell
Ayers, planned to
lene Monday
any rate, Maj. Gen Ro-
Wood, commanding
general at Ft. Bliss, announced
this week that all firing and
training has been temporarily
halted on the 440,000 acres of
public domain which was to
contain the “impact area’’ for
the firing of the Army’s newest
weapons.
The new flare-up was start-
ed last week when Federal
Judge Waldo Rogers in Albu-
querque, N. M. lashed out at
the military’s handling of the
land acquisition. He declared
have been^hat the Army acted “in a pre-’
cipitious and premature men-
ner" when it failed to obtain
permission from the Interior
Department for transfer of the
Otero County tract to the
Range.
The state of New Mexico is
attempting to get title to lands
outside the Range in exchange
for the area taken over by the
military.
One point that the Army has
apparently backed down on is
the matter of their declared in-
tention of closing permanently
Highway 33. According to
Submits Report Rep John Dernpsey N M -
* the Army is ‘on records as agre
ing that citizens may have in-
gress and egress to the Range
area when there is no firing
going on.
32 and is located on Farm Bb- j
reau property two blocks west
of Shelton Drug Store.
Need for the building arose
recently when Western Cotton-
oil Company leased the pre-
sent building from the " Farm
Bureau.
Ace Construction Company
is erecting the new building.
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A new drought resistant
:grass known as Sorghum Al-
mum is to be tried out in Dell
Valley this year.
This recently developed hy-
brid is an import from Aus-
tralia and about fifteen acres
of it will be planted on the
Bud O. Foreman farm. Fore-
man acquaired about twenty
pounds of the scarce seed from
Coleman Cowain oif Lubbock. ] teen years, according to Jerry
Tucker, president.
At an organization meeting
held last week Ronnie Howe
was named Ambassador-in-
Chief; Johnny Gentry as
sistant and Wayne Perry
Chapter Recorder.
The sponsoring group
Work is under way
construction of a new
building for the Hudspeth
County Farm Bureau.
The building is a concrete
Dell
and
fly to Abi-
of this week to
confer with head of the mar-
keting organization, to see if he
would furnish the seed for the
smaller acreage.
ture, it is claimed the crop will
carry up to three head of
stock per acre for several
months.
The introduction of the new
sorghum to the United States
resulted in a friendship struck
up in a Japanese prison camp
between John Coleman of Wel-
lington, Texas, and Jim Chis-
olm, an Australian sheep ranch
>er. ’
Following the war, Chisolm
■traveled throughout the world • Hugh
.looking for a new breed of
grass for his country. He paid
ei visit to his friend Coleman
in Wellington in 1951 and
promised to send him the best
.seed he could locate.
, A year later, Coleman re-
ceived an airmail package con-
taining about a tablespoon full
idf the Sorghum Almum. Cole-
iman planted the seed and Swas
amazed at its luxuriant growth
■and drought-resistant qualities.
From this small start the grass
■finally produced, in 1955,
seed in commercial quantities,
although, this year, only 2800
pounds are available. This was
produced on seven acres on
the Coleman farm.
Outstanding features of the
new grass include the fact that
•it is a perennial and one tiny
' seed will produce from 1 0 to
40 stalks. It is said to grow as
high as 14 feet and it makes
an excellent forage crop be-
cause of its sugar content.
Coleman who, with Oran
Starkey of 'Wellington, has set
up the Panhandle Seed Com-
pany, recommends planting
one pound of seed per <
40-inch rows. Planting
should be in May or
June, Coleman recommends.
The gras^ will start to head in
August and this will continue
until frost.
On test plots in Colings-
worth County, the grass has
produced from 10 to 14 tons
per acre as ensilage. For pas-
found out.
was drilled to a depth
of 1 660 feet and is being test-
ed with a 14-inch pump. It’s
drawdown is to a depth of 1 4G
feet and its production is esti-
mated at about 3 1 00 gallons
per minute.
The boys are all pretty
excited down there and make
a great to-do about the fact
that the water, as it comes from
the well, has a temperature of
97 degrees.
Well, what’s so strange^
about that? Those growers
down in that valley have been
in hot water for some time.
been drilled
farm south
about which there
more rumors than
shake a stick at.
Here’s what w.e
The well
%
has
named Jimmie Sparks, Ernest
les, Guy McCoy, Bert
Brownfield and Leroy Perry
as a supervisory committee.
Members of the youngster
group include Leroy
worth, Don McCoy,
Howe, Ken McLaughlin,
McCoy, Larry Presnail,
mond Bryant,
Jack Jonas,
Ernie Sparks,
man, .
The Old Whittier, on his
weekly pilgrimage to Fabens
to get out the current issue of
Dell City’s Greatest News-
paper, found time to visit that
deep-test water well that has
the Bills-Ellis
Fabens and
have been
you could
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Way, R. E. Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 24, 1957, newspaper, April 24, 1957; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1337409/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .