The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 129, Ed. 2 Thursday, October 24, 1946 Page: 2 of 18
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THE ABILENE, TEXAS, REPORTER-NEWS
Page 2 Thursday Evening, October 24, 1946
Cottonseed Sells
At $90 Per Ton
Cottonseed stepped to the top have on feeding operations could
rung of the price ladder Wednes-not be predicted. However, most
day, bringing around $90 a ton.
It represented a $30 increase
since removal of OPA ceiling prices
last week. Big advance results from
dearth of vegetable oils and keen
demand for protein feed, supplied
by cottonseed.
Oil price has increased from 14
1-2 cents a pound, ceiling price, to
23 cents since OPA control was
lifted. Prices shot up immediately.
Market had been very jumpy
duirng the past week Oil mills
and gins operated on a day-to-day
basis, all sailing • short," taking no
chance on a break.
Farmers who get more for seed
than the staple, cannot recall when
seed price was so high. Sam Martin,
Merkel, remembers $85 a ton seed
around World War 1.
Meal brought $90 a ton in Abi-
lene, pellets $92 50 Some brokers
offered cake at $108 and millers
asked $100 per ton for -peanut cake
and meal. It compared with $70
under OPA ceiling and $56 a ton
ranchmen, it was understood, were
willing to pay.
If frost come late, an immense
feed crop might be harvested.
Also, an abnormal wheat acreage
has been sown and moisture is
ample to bring the grain to graz-
ing stage if weather continues
warm.
this time last year.
What effect the steep rise will
City's Retail Sales
Gain 2d in State
Second place among Texas cities
under 30.000 population in increase
of retail sales in September over
the preceding month went to Abi-
lene, the Bureau of Business Re-
search, University of Texas, an-
nounced in Austin last night.
IOOF Plans New
Lodge Building
Discussion of plans for construc-
tion of a new building in the 300
block on Sycamore will feature
the 65th anniversary celebration
of Abilene IOOF Lodge (Odd Fel-
lows) No. 274 at 7:30 p. in Tues-
day at 181 1-2 Chestnut, Noble
Grand Walter McDonald said Wed-
nesday.
The lodge has purchased a
30x140 foot lot in the 300 block
on Sycamore. McDonald said the
lodge hopes to start construction
early in the new year.
First officers of the lodge, found-
ed Oct. 28, 1881, were J. T. Hol-
land, noble grand: M. G Terry,
vice grand; and Thomas Russell,
secretary.
In the Dog House
OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 24.—1*)—
A dog, evicted from his kennel at
the rear of a downtown building
by a man who left home after a
family quarrel, howled loud and
long.
Police came in response to com-
plaints and found the man asleep
in the doghouse. "I whistled, the
dog came out and I moved in,” the
An 8 percent gain was scored
by stores here. Lubbock had a 9
percent gain. Other cities of the
same population bracket which re-
1 ported gains were Tyler, 3 per-
cent: Temple, 2; and Port Arthur, intruder told the officers,
less than 1. . .
Dallas led the big city class with kennel and took the man to jail
—.....a gain of 15 percent over August, for a night's lodging.-----
Police put the dog back in the
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Saturday Evening
Post Story Author
Pays Abilene Visit
Henry Carlton Jones, author of
a story in this week's issue of the
Saturday Evening Post, stopped
off in Abilene Wednesday while
enroute to his home in Oklahoma
City.
A resident of Abilene from 1941
to 1945, Jones currently is adver-
tising and sales manager for the
C. R. Anthony store in Oklahoma
City. He was returning Wednes-
day to Oklahoma City from Sweet-
water where he helped in the
opening of the 16th C. R. Anthony
branch in Texas
While a resident of Abilene,
Jones wrote a aeries of 16 articles
early in 1945 for The Reporter-
News interpreting a natural re-
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VICKS VA-TRO-NOL
BIG TENT PERFORMERS-The Orantos, stars of a high
perch act with Cole Bros.’ circus, are pictured above. The
circus comet to Abilene next Monday for afternoon and |
night performances at 19th and Butternut streets.
COWHAND SHOW
Rodeo Draws
Big NYC Gate
By JACK HAND
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.-P—
Draws Sentence
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24—(P—
Eugene Striplin, who confessed
kidnaping and robbing showman
Earl Carroll of $240 in cash and
stealing his automobile, was sen-
tenced yesterday to serve from five
years to life in San Quentin prison
He was arrested a few hours after |
the robbery. Oct. 4
Riding the old Manhattan trail for I
the 21st time, the lean weather-
beaten cowhands from the West:
are giving blase New Yorkers their
snnusl taste of live horse opers
with the “world championship ro-
deo.”
Sophisticates who look down the
end of the nose at such "corn" -
may be surprised to learn that the
row ‘rasslin’ will draw about $1,-
, 500.000 into the Madison Square
1 Garden coffers during its 52-per-
formance stand. Only the circus
does better.
Unofficial estimates place the
total attendance st 650,000 by the
time of the Sunday night closing.
Everett Colborn, s ranch opera-
tor from Dublin, Texas, owns most
of the 700-head herd of stock used
in the two-hour performance and
is a major stockholder in the or-
ganiiation that runs the annual
event. Gene Autry, the star per-
NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—
—-Texas winners in toe Madi-
son Square Garden rodeo last
night were:
Spec McLaughlin, Fert
Werth, second in bareback
brone riding; L. N. Sikes.
Mexia, first in calf reptog; R.
I. Bland, Abilene, first in
steer wrestling: Bill Rush, El
Paso, first to wild cow milking
1__and Lanham Riley, Snyder, _
third to wild cow milking.
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Current leader of the 200 com-
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Although the average hand
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The story which be sold to the
Saturday Evening Pool marked his
first fiction sale. It is entitled Big
Lot Sale and centers around the
tribulations of a trio of small boys
in the efforts to buy a pony. Jones
said he aent the story to the maga-
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