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VOL. 57 NO. 57
BRECKENRIDGE, TEXAS—THURSDAY, MARCH 21. 1937
PRICE DAILY 5 CENTS SUNDAY 10 CENTS
STAND GUARD—British Naval personnel stand guard in conference room of the Mid-Ocean Club of
Bermuda in Hamilton where President Eisenhower will meet with British Prime Minister Harold
Macmillian for a series of talks aimed at strengthen in« tradition of Anglo-American friendship.
Naturopath. ICT
Probes Continue
In Austin Today
(By Aiutociated Press)
Tlii' House briber}* investigation
committee is preparing for possible
contempt action against Dr. Rob-
ert Spears, a Dallas Naturopath
who refused to answer some cjues-
tions about his past life.
Spears said the questions were
not pertinent to the investigation
of reported payoffs to members of
the legislator. The investigation
•was set off after former Conroe
Representative James Cox was
charged with asking a Naturopath
for a $.r ,00fl bribe.
A transcript is being prepared
of Spears' testimony and it may-
Travis County
ley.
Mrs. Emma Jean Stewart, for-
be given to the
District Attorney.
nier secretary for the Naturopath
ic Association, told investigators
that there was a standing order
to keep no records of a contro-
versial "education" fund estimated
at from to $f 9,WK).
Present or former members of
the House last night told the
House ICT investigating commit-
tee of their connections with the
defunct ICT insurance company.
* The committee is seeking reas-
(Continued on page 4)
Breck President
To FBLA Meeting
Miss Janis Knox, national pres-
ident of the Future Business Lead-
ers of America, will attend the
state convention at Emporia, Kan-
sas Accompanied by Mrs. Woodie
Smith, she was to leave from Ft.
Worth today and return Sunday.
Miss Knox will give a talk at the
opening session and Friday morn-
in* at 9:30 o'clock will appear on
telev ision.
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Seen or Heard
By C. M. H.
j^jyyyW
A big cro«*d took dinner with
the Methodist ladies today noon—
the ladies are to be commended for
werking that hard to help their
church Weather man says rain
about oter—ow more food rain
not too long from now, and a big
■train crop will practically be made
District interscholastic meet-
ing on here today, among other
natters to set football and basket-
ball dates.
Incomplete report received to-
tl- day says Ed Murphy, father of
Ike, MacMillan Exchange
Ideas About Middle East
(By Associated Press)
President Eisenhower and Brit-
ish Prime Minister Harold Macmil-
lan spent two hours this morning
discussing current Middle East
problems.
Following the initial session of.
the Bermuda conference, a British
• veather ——
■peak to the Lions at their meeting
tore Friday, Howard Swanson,
president said.
Dates of April 22-29 have been
• net for Clean-op, paint-up, fix-up
campaign here this spring—down-
town trash receptablee to be one
■tain objective.... Fire Chief Mace
Ims received a letter saying the new
fire truck will be delivered tore
about the last of July. ... Legion-
aires requested to attend meeting
tenight at 7:30, plana to be — -
for spring district convention
U. E. Lee who recently retired,
said he has a garden ^artcd. added
two or three friends have told him
""'.Setup
Here Left Same
As Last Year
The Merchants' Council of the
Breckenridge Chamber of Commer-
ce met Tuegdpy atterapon and apv
proved the previously recommend-
ed holidays. Memorial Day, the
Fourth of July Labor Day, Thanks-
giving, Christmas, .and New Years
day for observance here during the
year. These are the same holidays
observed last year.
The council also endorsed the
Civil Affairs Committee's plan to
provide trash receptacles of down-
town streets. This project has been
underway since last year.
The board of appeals was discuss-
ed, and the council wants to remind
ail merchants that a permit must
be secured from this board before
any organization secures donations
or non-commercial advertising. The
board, whose membership is confi-
dential, seeks to screen all soli-
ctors to protect other merchants.
A lengthy discussion was con-
ducted on the year's financial state-
ment. Expenditures were examined
for activities including the Christ-
mas program. Fourth of July cele-
bration, Armed Forces Day, bill-
board signs, and the Thanksgiving
theatre party.
Members attending were , Mort
Ewing, Bob Whitman, Bill Blod-
gett, Leon Ford, and Bill Wilson.
—Vote for Martin Dies. Pd-pol—
Cyprus Mediation
Is Rejected
By Associated Press
The government of Greece and
Greek cypriot leaders have rejected
an offer by the North Atlantic
treaty organization to mediate for
pegace on Cyprus. The NATO plan
would have attempted conciliation
among Britain, Greece and Turkey
on the question of the strife-ridden
Mediterranean Island.
Most of the 400,000 Greek-Speak-
cypriots on the British colonial is-
land wvnnt Cyprus united with
Greece. The smaller Turkish cypriot
population opposes this.
Britain agreed yesterday to the
concitation attempt The Turkish
government has made no official
statement, but informed sources
tviy Turkish delegates at the Unit-
ed Nations already have made such
a proposal and the government
would welcome the plan.
Greek reaction has been that the
problem is not one of differences
existing among the three nations.
But one affecting the self-determin
ation of Cyprus. They argue it
should be settled directly between
Britain and the Greek Cypriot peo-
ple.
not" to "sirown Party.
Chamber of Commerce, headed by
Arthur Miller, went out to In P«et
the new road just completed to the
.« _# one!
■TV
Raymond Stewart drove to
town for coffee this morning from
the hilltop, said it raised his ego
to come down town once to a while
... .And, things are surely looUng
tip here these day to several way*.
Thought For The
- ft turn so bUad a*
Death Sentence
For II. S. Soldier
TOKYO (AP)--H U. S. Army
says that the death sentence im-
posed on Private Orvis L. C. Boone
by a Japanese court takes prece-
dence over earlier sentences impos-
ed by the Army.
Boone i* a 24-year-old Galveston,
Texas, Negrtf who has been sent-
' to die with his Japanese girl
for murder, arson and rob-
oone had already been sentenc-
to life imprisonment by an
j y court martial for murder,
if now in Tokyo, Japan,
foreign office spokesman said the
talks began with a general review
of the world situtaion. Then Eis-
enhower and Macmillan discussed
the Middle East and exchanged
views on a number of urgent Mid-
dle East questions, including the
Gaza Strip, the Gulf of Aqaba
and the problem of the Suez Canal.
The spokesman said aspects of
these issues were referred to ex-
perts for further study with in-
structions to report back to the
top men at this afternoon's session.
It was also announced that Pres-
ident Eisenhower has summoned
more advisers from Washington
to assist with the discussion of
British and American defense and
atomic problems. White House
News Secretary James Hagerty
said the advisers were summoned
for a discussion of atomic matters
and. guided missiles-wHeh- wHI
probably take place tomorrow.
President Eisnhower is reported
seeking from Prime Minister Mac-
millan a full outline of Britain's
plans to reduce its military forces
around the world.
American officials see a serious
possibility that the United States
may have to make new commit-
ments of its own to keep the free
world's defenses from being weak-
ened in the face of continuing So-
viet expansionist pressure.
The same officials agree that the
U. S. government recognizes the
gravity of Britain's financial sit-
uation. But they think that Mac-
millan is in Bermuda prepared to
negotiate the timing and extent
of the planned reductions in Brit-
ain's armed strength.
So far the U. S. has not been
fully and officially informed of
Britain's plans. Washington knows
Britain in the next year will call
home some 13,000 of the 80,000
men it has in West Germany. This
has been announced. But the U. S.
has no official information on an-
other reduction. This is reported
by qualified informants to be a
plan to withdraw most of the 5,000
British troops in South Korea.
There also is no official informa-
tion on what will happen to British
commitments in Hong Kong, Sing-
apore, Malaya and Libya.
In Paris, Israeli foreign minis-
ter rGolda Meir says she and
French Foreign Minister Christian
Pineau are in complete agreement
that Israel and Egypt should pro-
claim a policy of non-belligerency.
Mrs. Meir made the stater-ent
after a 45-minute conference vr'th
Pineau.
Israeli army headquarters said
Syrians and Israelis exchanged
fire for two hours yesterday after
Syrian Arabs opened fire on Israeli
casualties.
President Tries
To Rally Spirit
Of Boy Amputoo
(By Associated Press)
President Eisenhower, no
stranger himself to adversity, io
trying to rally the spirits of a
12-year-old boy who lost both
!<*gs in a fall under a freight car
in February.
The boy, Gerry Corkeiy of
Philadelphia, received a letter
week from the President saying
"please get well soon." He also
got a get welt message from
Sherman Adams, the President's
Chief Assistant, along with an
autographed picture of the Pres-
ident.
In his letter, Eisenhower wrote
Gerry: 1 know just how hard
it it for an active boy tike your-
self to face the problems that
you have, Hut I am also com-
pletely confident that you will
courageously return to your
schdol and home routines ..."
The President learned about
Gerry's accident from Democrat-
ic Representative James Byrne
of Pennsylvania whose family
has been close to the Corkerys
for years.
Three Nells Are
Staked; OneTo
Be Plugged Back
WOODSON Oil Co., of Fort
Worth spotted No. 7 J. T. Mc-
Donald in the DeLong (Con-
glomerate) Field 12 miles north-
east of Breckenridge.
Having a proposed depth of 4,-
500 feet with rotary, it is 1,263 feet
from the northeast and northwest
lines of Section 1023, TE&L Sur-
vey.
W. J. Gourley of Graham No.
4 J. M. Ward Estate, plug - back
operation two miles northeast of
Caddo in Stephens County, has
been completed as a producer in
the Gourley (Strawn Sand) Field.
Location is in Section 19, Block
4. T&P Survey.
Daily potential was 160 barrels
of 41 gravity oil flowing through
a '"-inch choke with 850 pounds on
casing and 200 on tubing. Flow-
was from five perforations at 2,-
826-2,838 feet. Plugged - back total
depth was 2,861 feet. Gas - oil ra-
tio was 300-1.
Same operator staked No. 1-C R.
M. Robers as a 5,000-foot rotary
project in the regular field two
and a half miles northeast of Cad-
do.
Location is 467 feet from the east
and 2,173 feet from the north lines
of Section 28, Block 5, T&P Sur-
vey.
Beth A. Railey et al, of Wichita
Falls No. 1. E. C. Head will be a
2,500 - foot rotary project one-
fourth mile west of Wayland in the
regular field.
Site is 330 feet from the South
and 990 feet from the east lines of
Section 58, Block 6, T&P Survey.
—Vote for Martin Dies. Pd-pol—'
Dinner Planned
For Church Men
The Christian Men's Fellowship
of the First Christian Church will
have a dinner Monday evening at
the church when the program "Cap-
ital for Kingdom Building" will be
presented.
Speaker for the occasion will be
Dr. George Davis, pastor of the
First Christian Church of Wichi-
ta Falls, and outstanding figure
of the denomination.
The dinner will be a covered dish
affair service to beginning at 7
o'clock. .
RAINFALL OF .55 HERE
BOOM TO GRAIN. GRASS
Hutcheson Plans
Visit To Breck
Friday At 2:15
J. A. Boyle, Republican county
chairman, announced today that
Thad Hutcheson, Republican can-
didate for U. S. Senator in the
special election to be held April
2, will visit Breckenridge Friday.
Hutcheson will hold a press con-
ference and, informal panel dis-
cussion in the Junior Ballroom of
the Burch Hotel upon his arrival
at 2:15 p. m. He will discuss the
views of national leaders as ob-
tained from his recent trip to
Washington, D. C. and his personal
views on the issues of this special
ejection. Boyle extends an invita-
tion to all voters to meet Hutche-
son tomorrow afternoon. Boyle said
t "Hutcheson is admittedly not
rofessipnal politician, he feels
Texans will elect their new-
tor on his qualifications and
orm rather than on prior rec-
of political servitude. Hutche-
son believes that the time has
come for a new view in Texas
politics, th^t there is a real need
for new names and new faces in
Texas political leadership. He feels
that competition produces the
best representation and the best
discipline in public office, only
with a two-party system can Texas
rise to the position of respect it
deserves in Doth parties."
Boyle asserted that this election
is the pnicjaj test for the two
party system in Texas and a means
to fend scandals and bossism by
establishing traditional American
two-jparty government, Thad Hut-
cheson represents a new view in
Texas politics, a conservative,
states' right, Ike admiring, twft-
pariy*Ye*air. •'"
Pressures Develop Against Nfjtigr
CLONK OffiR MNU EAST
APFEAK SMEHHAT SHORTER
(By Associated Press)
The clouds over the Middle East
have brightened somewhat, but
much remains to be done befdre any-
thing like a settlement comes along.
There is a strong impression that
President Nasser of Egypt is
bluffing, fhat he is trying to gain
his objectives by various maneu-
vers. Quite a few diplomats be-
lieve that he will come to terms
once he reaches a blank wall.
As some of them see it, the Suez
Canal is a valuable trump card
in the hands of Nasser. He can
get a good price for it, but he
cannot get any price. The canal
would be of no value to Egypt if
the maritime nations did not use
it. As a matter of fact, if they
are willing to tighten their belts,
they could get along without it.
There are plans afoot to by-pass
the canal when it is reopened if
Nasser takes an unreasonable po-
sition.
There have been reports that
Nasser would offer to yield a little
on the canal if he had his way in
the Sinai Peninsula, but it is
doubtful that the allies will fall
for this maneuver. It is felt in
Western quarters that a settlement
must be made on all disputes, that
the Middle East must be stabil-
ized at ail costs.
Pressures have developed against
Nasser. Some of his own friends,
members of the Asian-African
group, are beginning to wonder
about his intentions. They are said
to believe that continued trouble
in the Middle East can only harm
the nations of the three old con-
tinents.
United Nations Secretary-Gen
erat Hammarskjold is ready with
a new approach, it seems. His ad-
visers say he has found the weak
point in the Egyptian argument
about not letting Israel use the
Sues Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba.
Egypt has maintained all along
that it was at war with Israel.
One may say therefore that the
Israeli aggression last fall was
part of the conflict.
The word is that the Secretary
General will try to persuade both
Egypt and Israel to proclaim non-
belligerency. Israel would agree
readily, it is said. Prime Minister
Ben-Gurion has repeatedly stated
ready to talk
with all hfs Arab foes. He" also
that We was ready
peace
has warned that Israel would not
stand for renewed Egyptian as-
saults from the Gaza Strip or in-
terference with Israeli shipping in
the Gulf of Aqaba.
It is not expected that Nasser
will go along, at least not without
an argument. The state of war
is the basis for the Arab boycott
of Israel. This goes for Egypt's
ban against •Israeli shipping in
the Suez and Aqaba.
But Egypt cannot claim to be
•t war and demand UN protection
if it is attacked. It will have to
decide one way or another.
It should be mentioned at this
point that Hammarskjold is high-
ly esteemed by Arab leaders. Some-
how he has managed to gain their
confidence. He has used this asset
very sparingly in the past. They
may accept his. proposal on non-
belligerency if he strongly advises
them to do so.
—Vote for Martin Dies. Pd-pol—
Last Game Played
In Church Loop
The Church of Christ basketball
team jumped to an eight point first
quarter lead over the .First Meth-
odist team by controlling the re-
bounds from both baskets, and
tucked the runner-up spot and
trophy into their possession with
a 60 to 27 decision in the play-off
game staged Tuesday night at the
YMCA, marking the end of play
for the Church League Basketball
League. Brothers, James and Rob-
ert Greenlee scored 18 and 13
points respectively for the Church
of Christ team corMnuing their
usual fine play along with Nor-
man Hitt, J. C. Post and Max
Rhymes. Their victory Tuesday
night marked the second year in
succession their team has won the
runner-up position in the YMCA
League.
league play
churches were represented by
teams in twenty regularly sched-
uled games. Churches represented
by teams include the First Meth-
odist, Bethany Baptist, First Chris,
tian, The Church of Christ, and
The First Presbyterian Church. The
team representing the First Pres-
byterian Church has won the
championship trophy for two years.
Mr. Woodrow Garrett, director of
the YMCA wishes to express his
appreciation to ail the young
people and adults that participat-
ed in the church program this year.
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ARRIVES—British Prime Minister Harold Macmillian, right, is
greeted by Bermuda's Gov. Lt. Gen. Sir John Woodall as he arrives
at Kindley Air Base for top-level talks with President Eisenhower.
Macmillian said he is sure the meeting "will be valuable in helping
to build up the strong tradition of Anglo-American friendship upon
which the whole life of the free world depends."
Funeral Service
Thursday For
L. H. Downing
Funeral service was held Thurs-
day at 3 p. m. for Lewis Hawkins
Downing former Breckenridge resi-
dent, at the First Presbyterian
Church, Rev. Jr D. Hatch,' pastor,
officiating, assisted by Rev. L. L.
Martin, pastor of the First Pres-
byterian Church at Crane.
Mr. Downing, a resident of
Crane, died Tuesday evening at
7 o'clock while visiting a daugh-
ter, Mrs. O. E. Coleman in Cle-
burne. He suffered a heart attack
six years ago which caused his
retirement as a stock farmer.
He was born March 3, 1895, in
Eastland County and lived in the
Union Hill Community in Stephens
County most of his life. He moved1
to Abilene in 1942 and then to
Crane.
Mr. Downing w.as a member of
the Presbyterian Church in Crane.
Burial was in the Necessity
Cemetery in south Stephens Coun-
ty, Melton Funeral Home in
charge.
Surviving are his wife; one
daughter, Mrs. O. E. Coleman of
Cleburne; one son, Gordon of
Floydada; two sisters, Mrs. Ben
Grant of Breckenridge and Mrs. J.
A. Foy of Electra; two brothers ,T.
A. Downing of Caddo and A. H. of
Stephenville and five granddaugh-
ters.
Pallbearers were Ellis Hope,
Carl Griggs, T. C. and E. T. Cole-
man, both of Breckenridge, and
R. V. Melton and R. L. Johnson of
Crane.
—Vote for Martifl Dies. Pd-pol—
Five Killed In
Crash
MAHNOMEN, Minn. (AP)—
Two persons were killed today at
Mahnomen, Minnesota when their
car sheared off a power pole. Three
rescuers were electrocuted in re-
lay in an attempt to remove the
dead and injured from the wreck-
age.
Killed when their t* r went into
a ditch and struck the pole were
28-year-old William Schultz of Win-
ger. Minnesota, the driver,' and 21-
year-old Donald Hattgen, also of
Winger.
Highway patrolmen said Schultz
apparently died of injuries suffer-
ed in the crash but Haugen was
electrocuted. The younger man
cried out "I'm being shocked"
before he died at the scene.
Six other occupanjts of the car,
mostly teenagers, were injured .and
are hospitalized at Crookston,
Minnesota.
The first car in the scene was dri-
ven by 18-year-old Marvin Duncan
Junior of Foston, Minnesota. Both
he and his passenger, 18-year-old
Arnold Rolf of Fosston, were elec-
trocuted when they went to the
Schultz car.
rihe same fate met 21-year-old
Clark Hoidaht'of Winger who came
along in another car and also
sought to aid the accident victims.
Mahnomen, with a population of
1,500, is about 260 miles northwest
of Minneapolis.
Mmtadk
ports
24 h<
Stephens Memorial Hospital re-
admissions Ml
hours. The following were dis-
missed: H^s. Glen Shulley, Miss
Lora Williams, Mrs. Frances Mc-
Cree, Mrs. Joe Bryan and William
WWtaoJda,
Work Completed
On F-l Road In
S. E. Stephens
Work has been completed on the
last unpaved section of Farm to
Market Highway No. 207 connect-
ing Breckenridge and Strawn with
a. paved .Highway.- This project ex-
tended from the end of F. M. High-
way 577 southeast of Necessity,
southeast 12 miles to the end of'
the existing paved road 5 miles
northwest of Strawn. The project
was' contracted to Cooper and
Woodruff, Amarilio, Texas, for
approximately $220,000 and was
built under the supervision of J. B.
Brannan, Resident Engineer for'
the Texas Highway Department.
This Highway will serve the
trade area of the community of
La Casa and the towns of Strawn
and Mingus and will furnish a
shorter route to Stephenville and
points southeast.
Planned work for the recon-
struction of U. S. Highway No.
183 from Breckenridge, northwest
to the intersection with F. M.
Highway 1481 has been suspended
pending a decision of the West
Central Texas Authority Board on
the loctaion of Hubbard Creek
Dam.
Plans are being prepared for
the construction of an extension
to Farm to Market Highway No.
1853 from the Eureka School
House, south, to U. S. Highway
380 in Breckenridge, and from the
abandoned location of the Manning
Plant, west to the Shackelford
county line near Moran. This pro-
ject will be placed under contract
as soon as plans can be completed
and right-of-way secured.
Two KMedWhen
Planes Collide
MOLINE, 111. (AP)—A plane in
difficulty and a second plane sent
aloft to check on its landing gear
collided in the air today, killing at
least two persons, near Moline, III.
There is an unconfirmed report
that a mechanic died with the pi-
lots of the two planes.
The planes were owned by Deer
& Company. The collision occurred
about 10 miles southeast of Moline.
The plane that developed landing
gear trouble was an older plane.
The newer plane was sent up to
make contact with it.
Five Tornadoes
Hit Texas But
Do No Damage
Rainfall that came in the nick of
time to keep Stephens county grain
crops growing measured .55 of an
inch at the city water pUu.t Thurs-
day morning.
The fall, that came as storms
lashed other parts of the state,
promised to give county grain
growers the first big crop in many
years. The lush fields were just
beginning to need more moisture
badly. The pastures outlook also
was greatly brightened.
Five tornadoes swept across Tex-
as last night and torrential cloud
bursts flooded central Texas
stre,atns and knocked out Highway
traffic in some areas.
A twister destroyed 2 barns and
upended a house trailer at Gidd-
ings. Four other twisters dipped
down in West Texas but caused no
damage or injuries.
Damaging hail, said to be as big
as baseballs, pounded the Austin
area and up to 3 inches of snow
covered Texas P,anhandle highways.
Lee county sheriff Vernon J.
Goodson at Giddings, about 60
miles east of Austin, said a tornado
hit a trailer belonging to Mr. and
Mrs. Lancaster and then roared off
vj demolish 2 barns.
The sheriff said the twister
skipped north about three miles
and dipped down between Lincoln
and Dime-Box. Trees were blown
down across the highway and
traffic was halted.
Ronald Christian, about 19-years
old, was killed when his car hit
,a culvert in Waxahachie during a
cloudburst. His wife was injured.
Highways south of Austin were
hubcap "deep in water yesterday.
Cloudbursts in the hill country
Southwest of Austin brought the
Blanco River up to flood stage.
A section of a bridge over the
Blanco River on Highway 281 at
Blanco was washed away.
Tornadoes were reported sighted
at Big Spring, Stanton, Crane and
Seminole.
Austin had an inch of rain in 30
minutes and Kerrville had 1.25 in-
ches in 25 minutes. The department
of public safety said .69 of an inch
fell in a few minutes at Evant,
west of Waco.
Hail larger than golf balls pound-
ed the sidewalks at Kerrville as
the nam came in "blinding force."
Gully washers on the Blanco
river watershed brought on the rise
precipitation. Heavy thunderstorms
highway 281 bridge south of Blan-
co. The State Defense and Disaster
Office said highway 183 about 10.
miles south o£ Austin was under
one foot of water.
The Department of Public Safe-
ty said a man was w-ashed off of
a low water creek bridge in his Or
south of Austin but he was rescued.
Rains had let up over most of
Texas following heavy overnight
precepitation. Heavy thunderstorms
lashed southeast Texas earlier to-
day. Cloudy skies prevailed in the
east portions of the state. West
Texas was having clear weather.
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Not AH Surplus Farm Products
Sales Are In Red Ink Declaired
By OVID A. MARTIN
(Associated Press Farm Editor)
WASHINGTON (AP)—Not all
the ink used by the Agriculture
Department in noting sates of sur-
plus farm products is red. Now
and then some black is used.
The agency's losses ate running
at the monthly rate Of about 110
million dollars. They are sustained
in the sale of the products for
less than the government paid for
them under price support opera-
tions.
But saies operations last week,
which were typical for the year,
showed a net profit of $746 on a
sale of 161,000 worth of turpen-
tine and .rjein, products of the
pine forests of Sotr'Jiern and Gulf
states.
Tjw department's sales sbeat lor
the week disclosed cash sales total-
ing eleven million 706,000 dollars.
Items covered include cotton, .but-
ter, cheese, dried milk, wheat, corn,
bartey, oats and "rye as well as
the turpentine and rosin.
Marked in red, so to speak,
were losfies totalling $2,911,000.
Cotton vjuch cost the govern-
ment an average . of *172.18 per
bale was sold for an average of
$133.50. Butter that cost 69 J cents
per pound -•
Cheese sold. .. . ,
for W.3
per pound compared with its cost
of 16.9 cents.
Wheat bifottL „ .
or 14.6 cento less than cost. Corn
that q* per.,1r&Sirtt<
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Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 57, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1957, newspaper, March 21, 1957; Breckenridge, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth135526/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Breckenridge Public Library.