The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1955 Page: 3 of 8
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To Signing
Gov. AUan Shivers
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Spcciat Second Ju-
Lrttundto create the
licin! District of Texas
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THE ALTO HERALD, ALTO, TEXAS, JUNE 9, 1953
Nacngdochus Counties.
The biii, in makes per-
nanent the temporary district
court.
KariierSen OttisLwkofLuf-
k'nhadintrofiucerlabiHtoex-
I'tiiithe^fcof the temporary
court two yenr^. However, iater
Icmslators "utKtorstood" that
Shivers, who had indicated he
wou[dnotsiant)i!!sto,najn;t'n.
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VISIT US FOR YOUR
ESCRIPTION SERVICE
.RE A BACKGROUND OF MANY
RS OF EXPERIENCE AND DE-
IDABILITY ALL ADDS UP TO
UE AND SATISFACTION FOR
MANY CUSTOMERS.
ALLEN DRUG STORE
Mrs. Coy Maye Alien. Prop.
ALTO, TEXAS
I court ])t emanent uniess it came
in the form of a general judicia)
:edistricting, had changed his
mind.
' special court was created
, the Legistature after a Bar
I association survey found the
thrcv-county district, with a
single court, had the most crowd-
ed docket of any district in the
state. James Moore was elected
as judge of the court at the No-
vember 2 election.
I'hc bill provides that the gov-
ernor shall appoint a judge for
the new court who shall hold of-
fice until the next genera] elec-
tions md then until his successor
shall bo elected and qualified.
Thereafter the judge will be
elected.
It provides also that the two
district courts covering the three
counties shall have concurrent
jurisdiction. !t specifics that the
judges of the courts may sit and
hear caws in the same county at
the same time if they choose.
Cases may be transferred from
one to the other of the courts and
the judges arc authorized to sit
for each other.
Meets second Monday
night in each month.
Special meetings each
Tuesday night for
work in the first three degrees.
All members should attend.
Visiting brothers invited.
T. E. CUMMINGS, Sec'y.
Lyons B!g to Day
SPEC!AL OFFER ON
Maytag Washers
LYON'S EXTRA SPECIAL OFFER:
* One Year's Supply of Tide, Value $12.00
* Set Double Tuba, Value $!8.00
* Maytag Washing Machine, VaL $139.95
Total $169.95
ALL FOR THIS SPECIAL LOW PRICE
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EASY TERM3
Vons Butane Gas Co
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Alto, Texas
Cherokee County
Soil Conservation
District News
F. M. Stovall of Rusk, Texas, is
grazing better than two head of
cattle per acre on his bottomland
pasture. Today Bermuda - and
White Clover are 8 inches tall.
Since March 2t). 135 head of cows
and calves have grazed two-
thirds of the time on this 35-acre
pasture.
Stovall began improving this
pasture 5 years ago. He has ap-
plied one ton of lime, 1,000 pounds
of 20% phosphate and approxi-
mately 5 tons of broiler house
litter per acre. Stovall estimates
he is growing a 1,000 pounds of
beetf per acre per year on this
pasture.
* * <
S. A. Norman of Jacksonville
has one of the better producing
pastures in this Soit Conservation
District. Norman has had an ex-
cellent bottomland pasture for
several years. Real progress is
now being made on hilt and pas-
tures. Dick Colville, farm man-
ager. has been growing Crimson
clover on this hill land for three
years. Bermuda grass on the hill
is beginning to cover thin areas
and is affording real grazing.
Colville and Norman are both
sold on Crimson as a soil builder
for pasture land.
Ben Guynn of Rusk, recently
applied 300 pounds of 5-10-5 fer-
tilizer on a 35-acre bottom pas-
ture. Bermuda and Dallas grass are
getting ahead of more than 50
head of dairy cows. These cows
graze this pasture about 5 hours
a day and are moved. Guynn
mowed this pasture last week to
control the weeds.
Monroe Allen of Maydelle, set
Coastal Bermuda out on April 26
of this year. His grass has run-
ners 24 inches long and stands 6
inchcs high. Allen p!ans to estab-
lish a 6-acre meadow next year
from his nursery plot. Allen was
one of several District Coopera-
tors that harvested Coastal Ber-
muda planting stock from A. S.
Moore's nursery this spring.
* * *
C. H. Hammonds of Jackson-
ville, was assisted by Soil Con-
servation Service technicians in
planning a soil an.d water conser-
vation program on his farm
near New Hope last week. Ham-
mond will begin his pasture work
by applying 300 pounds of 10-20
10 per acre on bottom pasture as
soon as possible.
COST CUT 80
PER CENT !N
TEXAS FERTILIZER
Bay City, Texas.—A nationally-
known research chemist is ex-
perimenting with a revolutionary
new fertilizer on Texas soil which
he says will cut the cost of com-
mercial fertilizer by 80 per cent.
The chemist, P. W. Mader, is in
the process of moving his labora-
tory to Bay City from Foley, Ala.,
where for many years he experi-
mented with fertilizer chemicals
and plant food.
Mader says his new formula,
which he discovered through an
accident, will produce crops on
barren land, produce them faster
and cheaper if his experiments are
successful.
Ho plans to establish research
stations in the Texas Panhandle,
west of Houston, one in the Rio
Grande Valley and another some-
where in Central Texas.
He says the formula utilizes the
reverse principle of the hydrogen
bomb—it extracts nitrogen from
the air by the use of a chemical
compound which includes cobat,
a tough, metaHic element similar
to nickel.
The actual formula, containing
no nitrogen itself, is spread over
the ground where fertilizer is
needed. It attracts nitrogen from
the air and collects it In the
ground where the roots of plants
can utilize the fertilizer.
Mader explained that all plants,
with the exception of legumes, ex-
tract nitrogen from the soil. He
said that unless some artificial
means is used to replace the nitro-
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gen, the soil becomes barren, pro-
ducing no plant life or plants that
have a nitrogen deficiency.
In such a case, he said, the ab-
sence or deficiency of nitrogen is
passed on to the animals or hu-
mans consuming the plants.
Mader, who has studied under
some of the nation's foremost
chemists, discovered a chemical'
during World War II which, when
placed in an area where sharks
are active, will rid the area of the
man-eating fish. He turned the
formula over to the government.
He said he discovered the for-
mula partially by accident when
one of the plants in an experiment
in his May Minette, A!a., labora-
tory showed a cobalt deficiency.
It was decided, he said, that an
extra dose of cobalt and barium,
a non-volutile element, be added
to the Mader formula.
Up to this point, he said the
formula he was experimenting
with had not extracted nitrogen
when the cobalt and barium in an
"overdose" quantity were added.
A small amount of the formula
was accidentally spitted on a
glass, and within 72 hours nitro-
gen crystals had formed and
t Mader said he knew that he had
found the right formula.
"There was no nitrogen in the
formula," he said. "So the only
place nitrogen could come from
was the air."
Mader said the formula is not
in commercial production yet, but
he plans to begin producing it as
soon as experiments in some "poor
quality" soil is completed.
He said the formula could be
produced in quantities at one-
fifth the present cost of commer-
cial fertilizer.
The nerve of the borrowers is
exewded at times only by the
faith of the lenders.
Herald Want Ads Pay
In Alto Wednesdays 1:00 to 5 p. m.
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F. L. Weimar & Son. The Alto Herald (Alto, Tex.), No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 9, 1955, newspaper, June 9, 1955; Alto, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth215395/m1/3/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stella Hill Memorial Library.