Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 225, Ed. 1 Monday, February 4, 1957 Page: 6 of 8
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depth r more in the area. These
ponds average 86 surface acres
HOUSEKEEPERS
AUGUSTA. Kan u — Robbers
who entered a home near Augusta
opparently • had housekecping in
mind.
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PADUCAH. Ky. * — Someone
here has eMd a consciehce that
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shee can be read in 5 minutes
but will give the necessary in-
formation to those desiring to
propi rly stock and manage their
farm ponds.
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A good buy in a used car!
Traffic Court
Conference Set For
Feb. -March 1 .
AUSTIN un-Gov Price Daniil
joined Chief Justice J. E. Hick-
man and Atty Gen Will Wilson
today in urging that public offi
cials atend a traffie- court con-
ference here Feb 28 March 1
About, 4.000,officials are expect-
Marsh’roptfec "I was making no
attempt to turn.” •
Marsh who has more than a
million air miles to his credit in
a 19-year career with the air-
plane. replied "No" when asked
if he- was attempting a forced
“landing. "What in your opinion
caunes the crash?" -1
“I don’t know,” the pilot re-
plied
area would have very littl value
as flood controf measures and
that they cateh and Hold hi very
small percent of the water that
falls on the •land.
Going a little farther, these
ponds were found to have an
off water from only 93 of one
percent of the_total land area
Since the total drainage of all
when you
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9 maps covered an area of 23.040
acres out of a total acreage Tor
427,124 acres or 5.4 per cent of
the area.
Naturally, in making a survey
of this type, many small mud
puddle type of ponds were not
roiintedheCausevf the small
amount of water cavght by them
and also the inadequacy of the
water supply.
On this area of 23.040 acres a
total of 148 ponds were found
with an overall depth of 9 8 feet,
but more than 50 per cent of
OIL A TIO‘
DISTRICT NEWS
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. Sulphur-Cypress Soil Conserva-
tion District, This survey was
made in an effort to determine
the number of ponds in the work
unit area, their size, depth andi
the acres.o land draining into
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in mnking this survey 9 aerial1
photographs .were picked from
various parts of the work unit
area in order to give a random
' — sample of the entire area. These
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too shallow for adequate live-
stock water as so many landown-
ers have found_out -in_the last
few years.
Using these sample figures and
expanding them to cover the
Work unit area of 427.124 .acres.
REAL ESTA
3-bedroom 1*
waat aide, ne
churches.
2-bedroom he
rood meizhbo
• side. Priced to
Several Ibta '
and well locate
Larne brick
Jefferson Aven
used forbusine
much lass thar
it.
Lot just outs
warn side.
Several nice
2*4 acres on ‘
County line G
with both and
42-acre meado
land. 5 od
fencina Locati
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Want Mrm I
JACI
Phone PA 4 381
FOR SALE —
refrigerator a
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Gordon McKee
John Hanes A<
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ponds in the work unit area
would have an ostimated drain-
, age area of 39.622 acres, it is
• They removed a heating stove, .evident that the ponds in the
suaamune.
nowane
Any time a federal elec-
trie power project is built
that mdependent e l e c r l c
companies are willing and
able to build, you lose,
twice. Your tax money is-
_ used to build the project
and you lose again Mien
you make up in taxes what
ceptable as such deeds with a
knife, gun or lub." I in. the 2.7 acre feet of water per
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like new Will
as part paymen
repair work. M
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Phone PA4-389
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let Uken from Mrs Ethan Cod
He retumhed the same prse.ney’s auto in Pontuc Michai
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We 'have W
acres, in the area and this would
require 28,475 ponds This is
naturally more ponds than we
could reasonably expect to ever
bed-We are, therefore, going to
still have lots bf runoff and a lot
of damiage from this water unless
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A pone survey--has - just been averege drainage of
eompiniedhyRruceMcBraver. wich we Wil
Conservation Aide of the Soil
Consetvation Service assisting the
pond 'These ponds collect run-
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SEATTLE i—An tai in a-Seat-
tii newspaper offered for sale "30
TERR im E ACRES. Will be fore-
closed it not sold promptly This is
a-stei for n person with imagina-
on.
♦ There was one nistnke,, those
were "‘tillable acres’ . -m * ’
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surface of a well fertilised, well
managed farm pond will produce
about 400 pounds of fish per year
With an a verage'of 86 of an acre
per pond, we find by multiply-
ing this by 2740 or the numbert ~“
of pools in the area we would
have a total of 2356 surface seres
in these ponds. Multiply this by
400 and we get 942.400 pounds
offish that could be produced in
these ponds Dressed fish can be
bought tor about 40c per pound,
ana 912,400 pounds that could ""
be produced in these ponds would
lie worth 837.696
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sonnel assisting the District
would be gJad to discuss this
management Of farm ponds with
any landowner having one of
these 2740 ponds on his farm.
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tThey also have pona mamatement
ed for the meeting.
"The three officis said in a let-
ter of invitation talay: ,
"This meeting is designed to
bring together the people who can
best advise us on needed legisla
tive changes Ao make - killing:
maiming and destruction with a
motor vehicle as socially unac
the land is protected from this.
water by conservationpractices,
such as terraces and cover crops I
on cropland, a good sod cover on
pasture' lard, and' a good cover
of litter on woodland-
Let's look at the possibilities
of these 2740 farm ponds as a
possible producer of food. Each
-d . the government project does
, l hot pay.
Dependable service!
FOR SALE —
lots with perpe
Lawn Memo:
4-2469 or PA4-
WOOD FOR Si
cut to anv lei
Hess. Phone P.
HOUSE FOR S>
son Heights F
with no closing
as dheap as rent
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I FOR SALE----
I room home, oi
John Deere tre
| ment and 1951
I See Paul Blacl
| weekends. Talc
FOR SALE —
in 2-bedrom hr
| west side of to
home and sma
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I Santa Gertrudi:
I Ranch Running
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I Vernof. Texas
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, NEW YORK if — Capt. Alva
R. Marsh says he dosnt know ।
- what caused his airliner to crash j
12 seconds after takeoff. The.
crash claimed 20 lives.
---M—h’s suviru at the rmah
was relayed to newsmen yester-
day by Alfred A Lane: idee
president of Northeast Airlines
The 48-year-old veteran pilot is
being kept “in seclusion" by the
airline at an undisclosed location.
"I didn’t know anything was
wrong," Marsh said, until copilot
Basil Dixwell "informed me the
ground was coming up at up at
eround was coming up at us."
"I was looking, at the instru-
ments at the time. rhey were all
working properly," he added.
Marsh’s Northeast Airlines
plane, a pant DC6Awith 102 per-
sosh aboard, crashed and burned
. Friday night on Rikers Island in
the East River after taking off
front LaGuardia Field. - X
More than half of the survivors
were injured. Thirty-six remain
in the hospitals,’ 14 of them, on
the critical list. Five victims were
identified yostordiy, bringing to
13 the number identified thus far
The Marsh account contradict-
ed with earlier remarks attribut-
edto him that he experienced a
I’loss of power” immediately after
taking off for-Miami, the plane’s
____ -detination. ----------
Marsh also had been quoted
after the crash as saying he
, thought the airplane had struck
. a pole" on the island.
—Azked yesterday if he hadbeen
; attempting to tirn back to La-
Guardia Field after the takeoff.
THE Mt. PLEASANT TEXAS, DANY TIMES Monday Evening, February 4, 1957
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Mt. Pleasant Daily Times (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 225, Ed. 1 Monday, February 4, 1957, newspaper, February 4, 1957; Mount Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1600322/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library.