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REPORTER-NEWS RADIO LOG
INFLATION FIGHT ON
Government Hopes Expensive
Credit to Be Less Attractive
that can’t be transferred is this:
Banks, insurance companies and
other* holding marketable govern-
moot loans hvo been able to sell
them and use the cash to lend to
. —By SAM DAWSON
NEW YORK. March 4 Un—Uncle
Sam is going to have to pay more
for the privilege of operating on
the cuff. He hopes that, in return,
be will make it a little more pain-
ful for his nephews to de the same, commercial borrowers at more at
In yielding to the insistence of
many in banking circle* that the
return you get for lending the gov-
ernment money be higher, the
Treasury has taken two moves,
apparently in agreement, with the
Federal Reserve Board;
tractive interest rates. This swell-
ing of the money and credit sup-
ply has been inflationary. The idea
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WANTED TO BE JOCKEY
Pioneer Jinks McGee Recalls Days
As Abilene's Mule Buying ‘King Bee'
1. An attempt is being made to
freeze $19 billion of the long-term
national debt by ottering higher
interest rates to any one who will
keep these government securities
off the market, where they could
be used to swell loans made by
banks and insurance companies
Banking circles aren't sure yet
whether the move will work, or
not.
2. The short-term Treasury in.
debtedness is being allowed to
yield more also. The rate the treas-
ury pays on its 91-day bills took
one of its steepest Jumps Monday
night, hitting the highest point
since the bank holiday of 1933.
Taken together, banking circles
believe these two moves may call,
the tune for a general firming of
interest rates. With government
rate* going up, and some of the
funds of banks, investment trusts,
and insurance companies being
frozen, prospective borrowers can
expect to pay more for a business
loan. .
The theory of the new policy of
trying to take 519 billion of market-
able securities out of the market
and replace them with 319 billion
now seems to be to make less
money available for lending, and
thus to make borrowing more ex-
pensive and less attractive—
to frees* part of the inflationary
stream.
But many bankers refuse to ac-
cept the implication that they are
responsible for inflation. Econ-
omists at the National City Bank
of New York contend that "the
major part of the increase In busi-
ness volume and prices in the past
has been financed, not as much
by new additions to money, as by
more active use of existing mon-
Donaldson Dodges
On Postal Deficit
WASHINGTON, March 7. U —
Postmaster General Donaldson
told Congress Tuesday to quit
blaming him for the postoffice def-
icit — either to make the mails
pay their way or let the public
know that regular deficits are na-
tional policy.
Donaldson was the first witness
before the House Postoffice Com-
mittee in support of the administra-
tion's request for a $166,000,000
boost in postal rates.
By HAMILTON WRIGHT
Until the “hoss-less” carriage
put-putted into th* transportation
1 calm Jinks McGee. 78. brought
up with horses and mules here in
a pioneer day, was the "mule man
extraordinary."
Equine lore came to him un-
abridged in a career of experience
li the Abilene country. His step-
father, the late Fred T. Wood, Sr.,
was a stock lover and passed on
that affection to Jinks.
Jinks had a noticeable yen to
be a race-horse man. He did some
jockeying in early youth, but
promised his sweetheart Bettie
Graves if she would marry him
he’d not make that his pursuit.
"Next best thing then for me.”
Jinks said, “was horses and
mules.”
His father was killed when
thrown from a bronco, but the fact
didn't deter Jinks from petting
and riding sprinted animals. Jinks
himself knew wagon-yards, too.
where he could study all sorts of
draught and riding horses. In fact,
be came with his stepfather and
mother to Abilene when 8 years of
age from McLennan County,
spending the first night in the old
Hemphill Brothers wagon-yard on
Chestnut Street, just off South
First Street. The night before,
February 13, 1883, the family
camped on the old Dunn Ranch,
where the little town of Lawn
stands.
"The first load of mules I bought
was from Dr. T. M. Blakemore,
who lived on Elm Creek near pres-
ent Wylle," Jinks said “From
then on out I became the king
bee' mule buyer in all the Abi-
lene country"
His stepfather, Fred Wood, Sr,
maintained a string of racers. One
of his mare* was declared “fastest
In Texas." She was named Dora
Wood. In honor of Jink* gother.
But Wood did not match race*,
but entered and won on race mer.
It, McGee pointed up.
In 1885 Jinks jockeyed a paint
horse in Colorado City during the
"gold days" there. It was a match
race and a San Angelo favorite.
Pancho, was left behind In those
days, McGee said, Colorado City
was a rip-roarin' city with mule-
car street transportation and a
large wool factory in the heart of
the bustling city. Speaking of jock-
eying. Jinks remarked:
"I did a lot of technical jockey-
ing-grooming, walking and get-
ting the racers in condition.”
And he helped train some
jockeys who became more or less
famous In American turft events.
In mentioning how he trained
them, McGee used the expression
"I threw him on hi* first horse."
Fred Wood,, Jr., his halt-brother,
touted as s Jockey by many Abi-
lenians, was really never pro-
ficient at riding. Jinks said with
a big laugh Young Wood was
manager of the Abilene Chamber
of Commerce in 1914-18, also was
manager of the first West Texas
Fair at the present grounds. Lee
Jackson, a jockey who ‘made good,
was "thrown on his first horse”
by the veteran McGee And a Buf-
falo Gap lad. Lon Gray, got his
start through efforts of McGee. He
died a few years ago, after he had
gained weight until too heavy to
be a jockey.
"Jackson, a small lad. hung
around Mr. Wood's race horses,"
Jinks said. "One day I put him
up and he made good—rose to
jockey stratosphere.”
In 1885, the veteran says, a fair
was held just east of the present
West Texas Utilities Building. Mc-
Gee put a flag on a broom-stick
and dropped it to start the
chargers.
CUBAN TRIP
LEGAL NOTICE
INVITATIONS FOR BIDS
SNYDER, TEASX
SEALED BIDS, subject to the com
dition contained herein, wul be R
ceived at 2 p.m. o’clock, the 12th
day ofMarch 11. 1950 at the office
of County Judge Scurry County, in
Court House Snyder, Texas, and then
publicly opened, for furnishing of all
labor and materials and perform-
ing all work for the erection and
construction of an Administration
Building for Beurry County Municipal
Airport Snyder, Texas. . ...
The minimum wage rates, of the
district, shall be paid for the eon-
struction of the proposed work as
determined by the U. S. Labor Des
partment foe Seurry County Airposrt,
Suyder, Texas. *
The bid form shall contain a state-
ment that the prices bid are based
on such wage rates:
Copies of the plans, specifications,
schedule of minimum wage rates
and other contract documents are on
file at the office of County Judge,
Scurry County Court House Snyder.
Texas, and are opened for public
inspection. Plans and Specifications
may be examined without charge In
the office of the Architect. Kerr &
Kerr, at 1801-D Washington Street,
Amarillo Texas, and in the office
of Ash Wilson & Associates, 250112
Avenue S. Snyder, Texas, or will be
forwarded to prospective contractors
upon deposit of $25.00 per set as *
guarantee of the safe return of the
l’lans and Specifications. The full
amount of this deposit will be re-
turned to each actual bidder sub-
mitting a bonafide bid immediately
upon return of the Plans and Speck
fications which are not returned with-
in ten (10) days after the award of
the contract.
Each bid must be accompanied by
a bid bond a certified check or
cashier’s check for an amount equal
to 5 per cent of the contract price.
Performance bond will be required
for an amount of not less than 100
per cent of the contract price.
Payment bond will be required for
ar amount of not less than 100
per cent of the contract price.
Each bidder shall state in his pro-
posal the time he will require to
substantially complete the construe-
t on of the proposed work Liquida-
ed damages for delay will be the
amount of $50.00 per day, for each
day that the work remains incom-
plate.
Bids must be submitted on stand-
ard form of bid and the successful
bidder will be required to execute
the standard form of contract for
construction within ten days afer
formal award of contract.
--Rich is reserved as the interest -
of the Owner may be requre to re-
ject any and all bids, to waive any
informality in bids received, and to
accept or reject any items of any
bid unless subject bid is qualified
by specific limitation
Envelopes containing bds must be
sealed marked, and addressed as
foHows: “Blds For Administration
Building For Scurry County Muniei-
nal Airport Snvder Texas
TO: Mr Edgar Taylor, County Judge
Sourry County. -,
Court House *
Snvder Texas
SIGNED:
Edgar Taylor
County Judge
Seurry County, Tera#
LEGAL NOTICE
NOTICE OF INTENTION TO LEASE
FARM LAND OWNED BY THE
62 Years in Printing Trade
Is Recoi
of Robert Bland
Reporter-News Staff Writer
SWEETWATER, March 3—Six-
ty-two years in one game is quite
a hill even for s mountain clim-
ber.
But Robert Bland, 82, operator
of printing Job shop in Sweet-
water, has been in the printing
game for 62 years continually. He
has made it interesting, however,
by moving about, covering most
of the United States.
In the days when printers could
quit without notice and get anoth-
er Job the next day in the next
town. Bland saw the U. S. when
it was 50 years younger. He start-
ed out from Taylor, Tex., west.
of Waco, when he was 18. He ser-
ved four years apprenticeship,
then moved to Waco, then to Aus-
tin. then to New Orleans, then
a tour through Mississippi, back
to Louisiana, and then to Texas
again.
Using Waco as a pivot point,
he headed north and spent some
time in St. Louis, Mo., Omaha.
Neb., Idaho, and then Into Wyom-
ing. Here he got broke and worked
on a cattle ranch during the "pan-
ic" of 1893. After two years on
the ranch, he returned to Omaha,
spent the winter in Kansas City,
Mo., then returned to Waco.
In 1895, he purchased part of
the Texas Western at Anson and
ran it for six months with Dan
Jones. Then Bland settled down
for the longest time in his "young-
er days” by purchasing the Gran-
ger Times and publishing it for
,0 continual years. Then the itch-
ing feet got the best of him and
he took off in 1905 for the Indian
Territory. After publishing the
Milburn News for five years, Bland
sold out and began to travel.
(The town of Milburn, Indian
Territory, was founded by W. J.
Milburn, 3366 South Sixth St., Abi-
lem Milburn, Bland—who had
some inkling of becoming a pro-
fessional fighter—"blessed out" a
Kentucky badman and afterwards
But It was buying and selling
mules that McGee stuck to. Dur-
ing the Spanish-American War he
bought and accompanied a ship-
ment of 58 mules to Havana. Cuba.
He rode in the stockear to Galves-
ton where the mules were put
aboard a ship. It was during this
operation that a big mule lifted
angry heels against a gate which
slammed against Jink's head, cut-
ting off his upper teeth to the gum.
On ship he grew violently sea sick.
"I wanted to die—but couldn't."
In Havana be said he saw oodles
of gold. Cubans spread table
cloths, gambled out in the open.
"The Battle of Mantanzas was
going on while I was there," he
recalled. During his brief stay he
obtained a small fragment of the
steel plate of the ill-fated Battle-
ship Maine torpedoed off Morro
Castle, also a black fan that he
gave his wife. The fragment of
the battleship has been lost. Mc-
Gee said sadly.
“I dealt in horses that would
make money and bought more mules
than anybody. The late Henry
James staked me in th* horse
business. My company was styled
‘Jinks McGee & Co.' It was the
first mule business in this coun-
"The first headquarters, he re-
called. was the old Barnett Stage
stand on Chestnut St. His com-
mission man was Johnny Kemp.
Jinks says he "learned" mules
after an experience with Nugent
Brothers, mule commission buyers
of St. Louis, Mo. "I thought a 17-
hand high mule was big. I shipped
a carload to him. My monetary
return was nothing like I expected.
I asked for an explanation. Re-
marked Nugent: 'Your mules were
17 hands high and seven inches
broad-they are not mules."
During World War I he got or-
ders from another St. Louis firm.
‘They said they wanted ‘miners.’
My stepfather explained what a
'miner' is. One with two ends and
a middle, 14 hands high. Later I
found out from orders what 'pit'
and 'sugar’ mules were."
The biggest mule Jinks said he
ever bought was obtained from Ben
Holly, a Potosi stockman. It was
shown In Fort Worth during a mule
show against a roan. "We won
first." • .
In those days we went in for
mules, not horses. Horses were
considered great in the North,
STILL GOING AT 82—Robert Bland, who has 62 years ex-
perience as a printer, is shown at his job shop in Sweetwater.
Bland worked on about every newspaper in the South-
west before settling in Sweetwater in 1928. (Photo by
Aubrey Shouse)
CITY OF ABILENE, TEXAS
In accordance with the provisions
of Section 41 B of the Charter of the
City of Abilene Texas, notice is here-
by given that the Board of Commis-
stoners Of said city will receive seal
ed bids to lease a certain tract of
land to the best possible bidder, all
things considered, said bids to be
opened at the regular meeting of
the Board of Commissioners -
March 23. .1951 at 9:00 A M ___
bids or proposals shall be filed in
the office of the City Secretary on or
before the date and time stated
above Said land may be seen by
appointment with John Berry, Land
Agent, for the City of Abilene at his
office hi the Cly Hall. The land here-
by offered for lease ia described as
a follows:
A tract of land out of the Northeast
corner of Section 81, Block 14. TAP
Railway Company lands. Taylor
County Texas being described by
metes and bounds as follows:
BEGINNING at the Northeast sor-
nor of Section 81. which eaid point
is also the Northwest earner of See-
tion 14. Blind Asylum Lands of Tay-
lor County Texas ,
THENCE South with the east boun-
dary line of said Section 81 a dis-
tance of 1739 feet to a corner:
THENCE North 84 degrees 20’ West
a distance of 362 feet to a point:
THENCE North 53 degrees nr
West, a distance of 1*4 feet to a
point;
THENCE North 09 degrees tr
West, a distance of 100 feet to a
point;
THENCE North M degrees er’
Wt a distance of IN foot to a
TikNcE South fo degrees N' West,
a distance of 85 feet to a point:
THENCE South a degrees 14 West,
a distance of 104 feet to a point:
THENCE North 37 degrees H'
West, a distance of 341 feet to a
point; ■
THENCE North a distance of 1618
foot to a point;
THENCE east a distance of 1308
feet to the place of beginning, said
tract containing 80 acres of land,
more or less, and being the extreme
Northwest tract out of the City Sew-
er Farm
The Lease Agreement will provide
for a term of five years beginning
April 1, 1951. Each bid must be se-
companied by a cashier’s check or
a certified check of the bidder for
the amount of the lease money for
one year, such check or checks
shall be returned to the unsuccessful
bidders, and the check of the sue-
ressful bidder will be applied as an
advance payment for the first year's
lease rent Each additional years rent
shall be paid in advance on or before
April 1st of each year. All leases
shall be on forms prescribed by
the Hoard of Commissioners of the
City of Abilene and the said Hoard
hereby reserves the right to reject
all bids.
THE CTTY OF ABILENE,
• Lila Fern Martin,
City Seer
L
Auto Thrill
1 Show Coming
An -
Reckless drivers In Abilene usu-
ally have to pay for the chances
they take, but on the evenings of
March 28, 39 a group of wild chauf-
feurs will b* paid to risk their
necks.
They are thrill artists known ss
Hells Angels on Wheels of the
Joyce O’Hara Circus who will pre-
sent 20 death-defying, acts at the
fair grounds. 7
The show is 'being sponsored by
the Cooties, honorary group of th*
Abilene Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Proceeds willgo exclusively for
visitation and entertainment of
patients at veterans hospitals.
Headlining the show will be
"Smoky" Rex Regan and hl* cele-
brated roll-over; Hank Herschey,
known a the Human Battering
Ram; “Crash” Chandler in his
dive for life; plus the famed Fire-
wall Crash and the Double Ski;
Jump.
Main work of th* VFW Cooties I
Is to aid and cheer patients in the |
various Veterans Administration
hospitals. Accordingly, their mot-
tn is "Keep them smiling in beds
of white."
was offered the Job of town mar-
shal. He rejected the job, but lat-
er ran for the office and served
a term.
Points touched by Bland for a
short time were New Orleans,
where he took a six-week course
on the linotype which be had been
operating for several years; Hugo,
Okla., two years; Monett, Mo.,
two years; Omaha, Neb., St. Louis,
Mo.; Kansas City, Mo.: Oklahoma
City; McCamey. Tulsa; Antlers,
Okla.; "a year or so”; Ardmore,
Okla, "a year or so.” Gaines-
ville, Tex.; and finally to Sweet-
water. J
He worked for the Nolan County
News in 1926, and after a year in
'McCamey, came back to Sweet-
water to stay. After a term with
the Sweetwater Reporter, Bland
set up a Job shop in partnership
with John W. Millsapp, later buy-
ing Millsapp out and has operated
it since about 1928.
Reflecting on the days of the
migratory printer, Bland says the
printers took pride in their work,
and, because he was a competent
workman, jobs came easy. It
would be curtains for a printer
to be fired-especially for incom-
petency.
The old man broke his hip two
years ago and navigates now with
the aid of two crutches. But de-
spite the crutches, his 82 years,
and his work which is done in
the standing position. Bland still
turns out his Job work.
Birmingham Miners
End 2-Day Strike
BIRMINGHAM, March 1.-4 -
Most of the 25,000 worker* of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Co. returned to their jobs today
following the end of a CIO ore min-
ers' strike.
TCI’s mills and mines wers par-
alysed for two days when the ore
miners threw picket lines around
the mills and coal miners staged
a separate walkout.
The 4.200 ore miners struck 12
days ago In a dispute over job re-
classification. They voted last
night to return to the pits.
All except the 4.000 United Mine
Workers coal miners were going
back to their jobs today. UMW of-
ficials were trying to settle this
dispute.
The ore miners were promised
at mass meetings last night that
an agreement on strike Issues
would be reached quickly with the
mules in the South."
WEIGHT GUESSING
Jinks likes to kid his wife about
how she failed miserably in her
second attempt to estimate weight
of a mule after guessing closely at
the first mule. "I brought the
mule out, stood him on s floor
and asked her to guess his weight.
“It'll weigh 1400,' she replied It
actually weighed 1420. Pretty good
for Settle, eh? But next time I
brought 'Jabbo,’ a pit mule out,
12 hands high 'How much?’ I
asked her. "Twelve hundred fifty,’
she replied. But the scale showed
only 859 pounds.
Mrs. McGee said: "Biggest little
thing I ever saw."
However, Jinks said he became
adept at guessing mule weight. "I
have won $5 many a time guess-
ing correctly," he added.
Here's sn instance of bow in s
wholesale manner. Jinks went buy-
ing mules. At Maverick a grade
contractor wanted out of business
when it appeared the Orient rail-
road construction would collapse.
Jinks bought 101 mules, all the har-
ness. scrapers, 23 wagons and other
equipment, for 311,100
At Ballinger, where he negotiated
for the money. Joe Wilmeth was
banker. "He questioned me about
such a huge deal. I pitched him a
silver dollar, asked him to verify
with Henry James, who was fi-
nancing me. ’I've got a notion
not to do it,' the banker said But
he called Mr. James who assured
him any amount 1 signed on a
check was good.”
Jinks rented a wagonyard
JINKS MCGEE
at Ballinger, on Main Street,
bought sorghum and fed the
mules. Soon he sold two carloads
to a Memphis. Tenn, concern, a
load, to H. B. Cooksey, former
sheriff who shipped them to Ar-
kansas. "I got back to Abilene with
28 head, sold the harness and wag-
ons. Yes, I made considerable mon-
ey on the deal."
He also sold polo pinies. About
15 years “shorthorses’, quarter
horses now, were raised for polo,
but were not quite up to expecta-
tlons. However, Jinks remarked
that quarter horses are excellent
as "cutting horses."
NOW EXTINCT GAME
“But th* mule business went out
completely in 1948." McGee re-
pined. "The automobile truck and
tractor put the quietus to them.
And now horses and mules are not
even welcomed in our armies."
"But It was a great game while
It lasted."
When McGee arrived in Abilene
Valentine Day, 1883. the town was
just a village. In 1885 the old Pal-
ace Hotel, on Third and Chestnut,
was erected and operated a long
time by T. A. Price of Russellville.
Ky. "The elite and aristocratic
travelers all stopped there. How-
ever, the big T&P Hotel was sit-
uated where T&P park now is.
McGee was born Aug. 22, 1874,
in McLennan County, about 18
miles north of Waco. He and Bettie
Graves, daughter of an Abilene
merchant, were married in Abilene
Nov. 11, 1897. They have one son.
Graves McGee, who is a poultry
raiser in Abilene.
In the period 1900 to 1920. when ,
the "first Monday" auction was —
held in the 300 block of Chestnut
end attended by many hundreds.
Jinks was the auctioneer. He also
hauled the first load of brick for
the construction of Simmons Col.
lege, now Hardin - Simmons Uni-
versity. He was a civic worker
and built the first real race track
in Abilene in 1900.
KEEPS VIGIL
Jinks has distinguished himself
by appearing at the corner of Chest-
nut arid South First Street a.few
minutes before each New Year
since 1885 and firing a pistol, ush-
ering in another year. He began
the vigil at that corner with the
late Chief of Police and Pioneer
J. J. Clinton and since the death
of Clinton In 1922 has kept up the
custom. Only twice during the pe-
riod has he missed being there-
when he was in Cuba during the
Spanish-American War and when
he was seriously ill. Though ill
with an asthmatic heart ailment
he ventured out Into the cold at
11:50 p.m. Dec. 31, last year, and
fired a pistol four times—a revolv-
er older than himself.
McGee said that he had been
kicked, bitten and injured many a
time, but it took a heart ailment
to make him drop out of the pic-
ture about five years ago. He was
attending the Christmas Ball at
Anson at the time. "I slumped
down.”
"But now I'm getting better all
along," he told the newsman. "I
welcome all old time friends to
visit me and talk over the days of
old," he said.
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Ceilings on Finished
Cotton Goods Asked
AUSTIN. March 7. () — Two
legislators called Tuesday for ceil-
ings on finished cotton goods rather
than on raw cotton.
"Placing price ceilings on raw
cotton means that cotton mills will
buy only from hand to mouth as
they know the price cannot ad-
vance." Sen. George Moffett of
Chillicothe and Rep. Max Smith of
San Marcos said in a statement.
HEADS 9TH CORPS —
Maj. Gen. William M. Hoge,
above, now commands the
U. S. 9th.Corps in Korea,
replacing Maj.-Gen. Bryant
E. Moore, who died recently
following a hellcopter crash.
company, as soon as they went
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Murder Teams
TAIPEI. Formosa. March t. (P)-
Chinese Nationalists today said
Chinese Communists had sent five
specially trained murder teams to
Hong Kong for an anti - Red purge.
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