The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 3, Ed. 2 Monday, June 19, 1950 Page: 3 of 24
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THE CHANGING SOUTH
TVA Saved Alabama
In Depth of Depression
By BEN PRICE
DECATUR, Ala., June 19. —
This is the town that newspaper-
man Barrett Shelton says came
from “nothin' to somethin’” in 15
Town KEEPING TAB ON SERVICEMEN
bat teat being held by the ;____
Monday Evening, June 19, 1950
and for assignment in specialised
work
First Lieutenant Benjamin A.
FAIR—1950
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FAIR—1950
years.
The story goes back to the de-
pression year 1933 and Decatur
was without hope.
But let Shelton, editor and pub-
lisher of The Decatur Dally tell
it:
“The one major industry we had.
which had kept 1.000 men at work,
closed. Another industry which in
earlier years we had subsidized
and brought from New England
went bankrupt.
“A third industry, manufacturer
of full-fashioned hoisiery, went to
the wall from poor management
and bad times Sevan of eight
banks in our county closed.
“Our farm situation: We had on-
ly one crop—cotton—and cotton
was five cents a pound. Lands
were selling for taxes The people
were ill-housed. ill-elotbed and out
of hope
"Into this dismal setting came
David Lilienthal, then a member
of the Board of Directors of the
Tennessee Valley Authority. Four
of our citizens who had beep hope-
ful of improving conditions met
him We were almost hostile, for
he represented another way of
thought and another way of life.
"Our conversation might be
summarized thusly: ’All right,
you were not invited, but you're
here Now what are you going
to do?"
"Dave leaned back in his chair
as he said gently and firmly. ‘I'm
not going to do anything. You are
going to do it.'
OUTLINED A FORMULA
"He went on to tell us some-
thing we never knew before; that
TVA would provide the tools of
opportunity-flood control, malaria
control, navigation on the river,
was in operation, there was a total
supply of 1.800 pounds of milk
"Today the milk production
peaks at 60,000 pounds and we
have just started. The stockhold-
ers never failed to receive six per
cent and just recently that little
plant paid a 100 per cent dividend
"Along about that time we got
some help from the outside
Navigation on the Tennessee
River made it possible
"The impact was tremendous.
Farmers could grow grain be-
cause there was now a daily
market
Two officers from Abilene, Ma-
jor Charles H Gipson son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. G. Gipson, of 1718
N. 2nd St . and Captain Jerome B.
May, of 1450 Orange St. who are
now stationed at Clark Air Force
Base in the Philippines, were
among the 40 pilots from the 18th
Fighter Bomber Group who Rew
F-80 jet aircraft at a mass Armed
Forces celebration held at the U. S.
Naval Station, Sangley Point
The Abilene, Texas, Reporter-News Page 3
major Air Force has been assigned as
Aircraft Warning officer with the
Keith of Abilene arrived recently AFB, Mississippi, Lt. Keith, who
First at Ladd Air Force Base, Alaska- has spent four years with the U. S.
America’s farthest north
military installation. ________________
Coming to Ladd from Keesler 632nd AC & W Squadron at Ladd.
AFB. Mississippi, Li Keith, who - - -
Lt. Keith’s wife, Mrs. Lalah Keith
lives at 773 East North 13th Street,
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DAVID LILIENTHAL
low cost power, test demonstra-
tion farming to show how our soils
could be returned to fertility.
“Our townspeople needed jobs,
our farm people needed a month-
by-month payroll, rather than
a once a year income from har-
vesting one crop.
"Our first step was to form a
chamber of commerce and we
decided a packing plant 'would
be the first venture We per-
suaded the local ice company to
put in packing facilities when
there wasn’t as much as one
wagon load of hogs in our whole
county. We are now producing our
own livestock to meet the demands
of this market.
“We then turned to milk,
formed a little corporation with
paid-in capital of $15,000 telling
every stockholder to forget his In-
vestment. The first week the plant
“These industries, land builders
and man builders, could never
have been pictured in the minds of
a defeated people, of a people who
in the year before TVA saw an
uncontrolled river wash away the
best soil.
MARKET FOR EVERYTHING
"Today there is a market for
cotton, corn, wheat, livestock,
milk, timber, small graine and
truck crops. Fifteen years ago we
were dozing in the sunshine wait-
ing for that once-a-year payroll
brought by cotton.
"Today the cash income from
all farm products in the area sur-
rounding Decatur is $43 million
Land building did it. Flood control
did it. TVA. with other state and
| federal agencies, and determined
people did it
"By 1940 there were 01 firms
manufacturing a product in Deca-
tur, employing 2,834 people with an
annual payroll of $3,159,000.
“By 1948, the industries num-
bered 87 and employment was
5.201 with an annual payroll of
$12,605,000.”
(Tomorrow — Banks Change
Tune)
On his present overseas tour of
duty since last March, Major Gip-
son joined the Air Force In April
1941.
He is a bolder of the Air Medal
with two oak leaf clusters. He
graduated from Anson High School,
University of Denver, and attended
Abilene Christian College.
in military service since August
1942. Capt. May left for his first
overseas assignment to the Euro-
pean Theater of Operations in
May 1944 and was there through
February 1945. He left for the
Philippines in September 1948
A graduate of Senn High School,
Chicago, Capt. May is a holder of
the European Theater of Operations
ribbon. Air Medal with seven oak |
leaf clusters, and the Distinguished |
Flying Cross.
His wife, Mrs Ruby May, has
Cavalry Division, at the base of
Mount Fuji, the famous inactive
volcano of Japan.
Sgt. Curb is a Platoon Sgt of the
Intelligence and Reconnoissance
platoon of the Eighth Calvalry Regi-
ment.
A former student of Merkei High
School, Sgt. Curb entered the ser-
vice in July 1940 and received his
training at Fort Clark, Tax. He
has served with the 91th Infantry,
the 70th Infantry and 29th Infantry.
Pvt. Wilmer R McDonald, U, son
of Mr. and Mrs W. D. McDonald.
1465 Cottonwood St., has reported
to Lackland AFB, the "Gateway
to the Air Force," to begin the AF
basic airmen indoctrination course.
Lackland, situated near San An-
tonio. is the world’s largest air
< force base
Thirteen weeks of basic training
will prepare McDonald for entrance
into Air Force technical training
joined him at his present over-
seas station.
Sgt 1-C Dwight Curb Jr the son
of Mr and Mrs. Dwight Curb of
3150 S Sth Street. Is participating
in the individual and platoon com-
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North Texas Negro
Admits He Raped,
Shot Woman, 60
ROCKWELL. June 19. (—North
Texas officers rushed a 25-year-old
Negro to an undisclosed jail Sun-
day shortly after he confessed here
.that he raped a 60-year-old woman
| and shot her six times.
I Texas Ranger S H. Denson iden-
tified the man as L. C. Sims. He
was arrested Sunday morning at
his home in Josephine, Tex.
The victim was Mrs. G. H. Thur-
man. a farm woman who lives a
mile west of Josephine She la in
a critical condition in a Green-
ville hospital
Denson said Sims denied any
connection with the crime during
I long hours of questioning Late
Sunday afternoon he signed a state-
ment and told officers he threw the
pistol used in the shooting in a
pool at a cotton gin near Jose
|phine.
Denson said a diver recovered
a 41 caliber, single action, revolv-
er from the gin pool early Sune
|day._______________________________
Chinese Reds Check
Each Others Business
I HONG KONG. June 19. W-A
reduce tax-dodging the Chinese
Reds have set business men to
| checking on one another's returns
| The official liberation daily of
Shanghai says that those in a cer-
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to check, verify and pass the en-
tries in account books of a neigh-
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The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 3, Ed. 2 Monday, June 19, 1950, newspaper, June 19, 1950; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1648296/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Public Library.