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Weakly Htrald Office
MexU. Texas
Reader:
I believe that if each of us
would be a little more observant
of the things about us our relig-
ious faith would gain strength.
Take this year for instance. All
of the newspaper headlines are
|f. telling us that unless more food
|> is shipped to Europe there will be
mass starvation in the very near
^'future. More food must be grown
; or thousands upon thousands of
' people will starve before the
year is out. In these same news-
papers you will see reports of ex-
cellent weather conditions for
agriculture over most of this na-
tion. The atheist would say that
this is merely coincidence—but I
think thht the most of us will con-
tinue to look upon such humane
coincidence with a feeling of
thankfulness and respect.
1 drove by Mr. H. C. McKin-
ney's home out on the Teague
highway yesterday and I looked
upon his new set-up with quite
a bit of admiration. A man must
get quite a bit of self-satisfaction
out of being able to do so much
with his hands. It was not many
days ago that Mr. McKinney sold
his home on the highway. He
i moved dowti the road that sepa-
rates Limestone and Freestone
countries. His place already looks
as if he had been settled there for
a year instead of a matter of days.
He has built a nice* cozy little
home that he intends to convert
to a garage and warehouse as
soon as enough building material
is available to construct his home.
His well is dug and he's probably
bricking it today. He has a nice
bunch of young fryers and a nice
garden. Such a man doesn't
waste much time worrying about
the OPA, strikes, etc.
And I owe Bub White a coke
for supplying ni\vUh-rrffnTher
joke of better'than average qual-
ity. Seems some hunters ap-
proached a fellow down along
the Trinity river and asked him
it there were any equirrels in
that territory. He replied, "Yes sir
—there's lot sof squirrels around
here, but they shore is scattered."
Found some interesting infor-
mation in a magazine that I was
reading last night. I know that
most of you hove read or heard
"The Shooting of Dan McGrew."
But whrrt"'T donT imagine "you
knew if you had ever thought
of it one way or the other, is
that Robert W. Service, the au-
thor is still living. He was born
in England, now living in Cali-
fornia and is one of the least
known writers of one of the most
popular old time ballads. I can
well remember back during my
high school days the admiration
and envy that I spent on one of
my best friends who had a special
knack for memorizing poetry. On
several occasions he would wax
poetic and repeat the McGrew
killing word for word. This went
over quite well with the girls
and I always intended taking
time out to learn it, but poetry
was one of the many things that
would never stick in my head.
Thinking of the things that I
can't do (which are quite numer-
ous) brings to mind a recent fish-
ing jaunt of mine. Many times
I've heard of the good fishing en-
joyed at Mr. Gussie Weaver's
place in Wortham. So I found one
of his relatives, which is a very
easy thing to do in this part of
the country, and we carried poles,
minnows, casting rods and every-
thing supposedly necessary to
lure any known species of the
fish family. We caught one bass
and threw him back, for it could
be easily seen that he needed at
least another year's growth be-
fore he would be able to keep
from looking very lonesome in an
V| average size frying pan. But
here's the catch. Yesterday I vis-
ited this same relative of Mr.
Weavers—and they were having
a fish fry, with fish caught in
| th 4 same spot, and weighing
fr i). a pound to three and a half
pounds. Just goes to show what I
already knew, that I'm the
world's biggest jinx to a fishing
party. The only thintf that they
are bitin' when I'm along is each
other.
Yours truly,
The Editor.
exia Weekly
A FARM NEWSPAPER. PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE RICH BI-STONE EMPIRE
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VOLUME XLVIII.
MEXIA, TEXAS. FRIDAY. APRIL 26. 1946
NUMBER 17.
COTTON
DALLAS, Tex., April 25 (UP)—
Approximate prices of cotton in
the Dallas market as reported to-
day to the Agricultural Market-
ing Service for basic middling lots
on brokers tables and B'. O. B.
Dallas trade territory, flat; basis
calculated on closing of 27.92 on
July contracts, New York:
Middling
Staple Basis Price
13/11} 350 off 24.40
7/8 190 off 20.00
29/32 110 off 26.80
15 1G 25 off 27.65
31/32 15 off 27.75
1 inch even 27.90
11/32 25 on 28.15
1 \ 1G 80 on 28.70
, Strict Middling 25-65 higher.
Strict low middling 180-295
lower.
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T-5 CLIFTON CHAMBERS
HOME ON FURLOUGH
T-5 Clifton Chambers, son of
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Chambers, is
here on furlough from Camp Rob-
erts, California, before reporting
to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on
May 7. Chambers has been in the
Army tor 15 months.
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LOS ANGELES, April 25.(UP)
—Mrs. Mayadclle Bennett told
police that two "baby bandits,"
boys 2 and 4 years old, beat up
her 22-month-old daughter, Cyn-
thia, and robbed her of two cents.
LIVESTOCK
FOKT WORTH, Tex., April 25
(UP) (USDA)—Livestock:
Cattle: 1800, calves 450, moder-
ately active. Most classes steady.
Medium and good beef steers and
yearlings 14.50-16.75, two loads
801 lb. at latter price. Medium
and good cows 11-14, odd head
to 14.50, cutter and common cows
8.50-10.50, canners 7-8.25, some
shelly lightweights in 6.00 range.
Sausage bulls largely 10.50-12.
Good and choice fat calves 15-
16.50, common and medium
butcher calves 11-14, culls 8.50-
10. Good and choice stocker calves
and yearlings 15-16.50, common
and medium stockers"' 12.50-14,
some 142 lb. calves 17.00. Stocker
cows 9-12.50.
Hogs: 600, active, mostly stea-
dy, stocker pigs stronger. Most
barrows and gilts 14.65, the ceil-
ing. Good stocker pigs 14.75.
sows 13.90.
Sheep: 15,500, very slow, early
sales of spring lambs and shorn
iambs mostly 50 lower, many bids
1.00 lower, aged sheep weak to
25 lower. Good and choice spring
lambs 13.25-14, common and me-
dium springers 11.50-12.75. Good
■shorn lambs with No. 1 and 2
polls 13.0(1, medium shorn lambs
11-12.50, cull and common 8-10.50.
Cull to medium shorn ewes 5.50-
G.50, good and choice fresh shorn
ewes 6.75-7.25, few No. 2 pelts
7.50.
" GRAINS
FORT WOimiTApril 25. (UP)
—Estimated grain receipts at Fort
Worth Thursday included 3 cars
of wheat and 2 cars of corn.
Prices reported to USDA's pro-
duction and marketing adminis-
tration were bulging at the ceil-
ing.
No. 1 hard wheat, with ordinary
protein content, was quoted at
$1.83 to $1.84 per bushel, bulk, in
carlots, with all charges paid to
Fort Worth or Galveston. The No.
2 grade, weighing 59 pounds to
the bushel, was quoted at $1.82 to
$1.84 while the 58 pound weight
brought $1.81 to $1.83.
Sorghums realized $2.70 per
hundredweight, for milo and ka-
fir, including all permissible
markups.
No. 3 white oats brought 89 to
91 cents a bushel in Fort Worth
and 91 to 93 cents in Galveston.
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Member Mexia Band
Is Flown Here for
An Appendectomy
Miss- Bonnie Douglas, 18, mem-
ber of the Mexia Black Cat band
who was stricken in Shreveport
Tuesday with an acute attack of
appendicitis went to surgery here
this morning after she had been
flown to Mexia in the local air-
port's air ambulance.
Miss Douglas, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Douglas, landed
aboard the plane this morning at
9 o'clock and was taken imme-
diately to the hospital.
SINGERS TO CONVENE
The Hubbard District Singing
convention will meet in the com-
munity building in Hubbard Sun-
day at 2 p. m., it was announced
today.
The Frank Stamp's True-Tone
quartet will be present, Jake Mot-
ley, president, said.
Only 1C?0 of the 300 known
varieties of fish in the United
States arc edible.
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Six-tenths of the iron ore and
limestone used in the manufac-
ture comes down the Great Lakes
in huge ships.
Mexia FFA Chapter Holds Annual Banquet
Limestone Farm
Plans to Harvest
Hairy Vetch Seed
These pictures of the recent an-
nual father-son banquet of the
Mexia Chapter of the Future
Farmers of America were snapped
by a News' photographer while
the banquet was in progress.
Nearly 75 members of the local
chapter with their guests conven-
ed at the high school cafeteria to
feast and to explain the aims and
purposes of the organization.
The picture on the left shows
the group at large, with some of
the students in the foreground
paying more attention to the pho-
tographer than the food.
On the right is a close-up of the
speakers' table. Facing the camera
and from left to right are. Weldon
([Fleming's father, Weldon Flem-
ing, student toastmaster; W. 15.
Driskell, veteran school teacher
and member of the faculty at
Sam Houston State Teachers Col-
lege, Huntsville, principal speak-
er; J. A. Chandler, vocational ag-
riculture instructor of Mexia high
school; A. J. Laughlin, superin-
tendent of Mexia schools and S.
E. McKinnon, president of the
Mexia Junior Chamber of Com-
merce.
New Subsidy Spurs Flow
Grain to Famine Areas
By United Press
The .golden grain -which Eu-
rope's star.ving millions need to
avert famine was moving slowly
from the farms of America's grain
bell today unUer the spur of a
new government subsidy.
Farmers were showing inter-
est in the program, dealers and
elevator men of the grain belt
reported. They said that many
were holding back thus far only
until they learned the mechanics
of getting the 30-cent per bushel
bonus which the government has
promised on higher grades of corn
and wheat.
First grain movements, in drib-
lets of hundreds of bushels, were
reported from the small elevators-
which rise above the grain lands
from Illinois to Nebraska and be-
yond.
Gene Kettle, 45, Asland, Nebr.,
farmer brought 500 bushels of
corn into the Kuhl-Reese Grain
Co. elevator at Ashland and sold
it without waiting to get details
of the bonus.
"I don't know anything about
the government plans, but if it
needs grain that I've got, I'll sell,"
he said.
E. P. Jones, elevator manager,
said lots of farmers were asking
about the mechanics of payment,
and predicted that they will bring
it in when they know how and
when they will be paid.
Some, he said, had told him
that they were "sore" about the
suddenness of the bonus an-
nouncement because they had
sold their grain before it came
and figured they lost inoniiy.Jle
said farmer John Peterson of near
Ashland had sold all of his corn
last fall and for the third eonseeu/
live year lost out on a price rise.
But he believed they would go
along with the plan and would
keep on griping about it "be-
cause a farmer likes to argue."
James A. Cole, district direc-
tor of the Commodity Credit Cor-
poration at Minneapolis, said that
"mercy" wheat was starting to
move into Minnesota elevators.
He said the plan had been in ef-
fect too short a time to show a
definite trend.
"We have plenty of boats ready
at Duluth to ship wheat and have
been assured of plenty of box cars
to move grain from country ele-
vators to Duluth," said Cole. "It's
now up to the farmers." Some
northern Iowa and southwestern
Minnesota farmers were disap-
pointed at the offer lieciiuse they
are holding apbor quality of corn,
below the required grades. They
predicted that the offer would
have little effect on grain move-
ment in that area.
Mexia Delegation
To Jaycee Meeting
Flies to San Angelo
Mexia's delegation to the State
Convention of the Texas Junior
Chamber of Commerce will roar
off the runways of the local air-
port Friday morning and head for
San Angelo, it was learned today.
S. E. McKinnon, president of
the Mexia organziation, will head
the local representatives, includ-
ing Jack Marrs, J. O. Banks and
Ozzie Edwards.
McKinnon said today that Mex-
ia is entitled to send five dele-
gates and that a fifth member
might be added to the group be-
fore Friday.
In San Angelo the Mexia Jay-
cees v.'ill exchange ideas with
representatives from throughout
Texas. Each delegate is armed
with one vote, to be cast in such
issues as Texas president of .the
organization and the 1947 con-
vention site.
The delegation will return to
Mexia Sunday.
Vernon White, one of the Dis-
trict Supervisors of the Lime-
stone-Falls Soil Conservation Dis-
trict, is planning to harvest eight
acres of hairy vetch for seed this
year. White's farm is in the Old
Union Conservation Group, where
hairy vetch, fertilized with super-
phosphate, has proved to be an
excellent soil building crop.
It is as good as and sometimes
better than Austrian winter peas
as a winter legume green manure
crop and in addition, it will pro-
duce a good crop of seed. Since
hairy vetch seed have been almost
unavailable at planting time for
the last two years, White plans
to produce his own seed and may-
be enough for some of his neigh-
bors.
White suggested that other dis-
trict cooperators take advantage
of the assistance offered by the
district supervisors and harvest
their own legume seed and grass
seed to be used for soil building
and pasture improvement.
Arnold White, whose farm is
also in the Old Union Conserva-
tion Group has planted' a three
acre plot to serieea lespedeza. The
plot was fertilized with 20 per
cent superphosphate at the rate
of 200 pounds per acre.
Obed Carter, whose farm is in
the Rogers-Seawright Conserva-
tion Group has sodded all of his
terrace outlets to Bermuda grass.
Marion Smyth and Mrs. J. L.
Freeman in the Smyth Ranch
Conservation Group have shaped
and sodded 25,200 feet of terrace
outlet channels preparatory to
constructing approximately 53.5
miles of channel type terraces.
The channels were sodded to Ber-
muda grass and after terraces are
Constructed they will be fenced
for pasture.
MEXIA BLACK CAT
BAND PLAYS FREE
CONCERT ON FRIDAY
Having just returned from
Shreveport where they were the
official band for the 20th annual
convention of the East Texas
Chamber of Commerce, members
of Director Ralph E. Burford's
Mexia Black Cat Band will en-
tertain homefolk Friday night at
the city auditorium with a free
concert.
The red-clad musicians, 75-
strong, will strike up the band at
8 o'clock in an annual music con-
cert which was slated for last
December but was postponed.
For Dicrctor Burford Friday
night's performance will more or
less mark his official debut and
introduction to Mexia citizens, al-
though lie took over the Black
Cat baton on January 21, suc-
ceeding Robert L. Maddox. He
will lead the high school musi-
cians in a varied musical pro-
gram ranging from concert over-
tures to novelty numbers Selec-
tions will include all numbers
which the band will play before
contest judges in the District band
convention scheduled to be held
in Waco on May 3, Burford said.
'Nazi Scandal Bared
By Nuernberg Trial
Ration Stamp Valid
For Sugar May 1
WASHINGTON, April 25. (UP)
—Sparc stamp 49 in Ration Hook
No. 4 will b egood for five pounds
of sugar beginning May 1, the
OPA said today.
It will remain valid until Aug.
31.
OPA said that on tho '•>asis of
estimated current and prospective
sugar supplies, it "expects the
same consumer ration of five
pounds of sugar for each four
months can be maintained." This
is the regular sugar allotment,
Canning sugar is granted in addi-
tion.
It explained that spare stamps
are being validated because the
last spare stamp labeled "sugar"
expires April 30.
NURENBERG, April 25. (UP)—
A former German official reveal-
ed an inner Nazi scandal today
with testimony that Hermann
Goering cleared the way for Gen.
Werner von Blomberg to wed a
prostitute, then induced Adolf
Hitler to fire him as high com-
mand cluef because of the mar-
riage.
Hans Bernd Gisevius, former
assistant in the Ministry of Inter-
ior, also charged before the Allied
War Crimes Tribunal that Goer-
ing trumped up charges of homo-
sexuality against Gen. Werner
von Fritsch to prevent him from
succeeding Blomberg.
Goering, the witness said, de-
liberately hastened the invasion
of Austria to stave of a revolt a-
gainst Hitler by a group of Ger-
man generals.
Yesterday the War Crimes Tri-
bunal was told that Goering,
through his defense counsel,
sought to intimidate Gisevius and
prevent him from testifying a-
bout the Blomberg-Fritsch inci-
dent.
Gisevius said Blomberg wanted
to marry a known prostitute with
a police record in seven German
cities during the winter of 1937-38.
Blomberg asked Goering, the
witness said, if it was all right
for him to have an aftair "with a
commoner."
"Later he asked Goering to
help him with a marriage to—«s
he expressed himself—a lady with
a past," the witness said.
Limestone Chairman of
Cancer Campaign Urges
County's Ful Support
One American is dying every three minutes in 1946 from
cancer.
J. O. Ashton, chairman ol' the Limestone county cancer
drive, made this startling revelation today during an inter-
view while appeal to local citizens to support the $12,000,000
drive of the American Cancer Society being conducted thru-
out the month of April. The Limestone county quota in the
campaign is $1,800.
'The cancer death rate is in-
creasing," Ashton said. "Ten years
ago there was one death every
three and one-half minutes, and
ten years from now there will be
one death every two and one-half
minutes unless we act now to
bring this disease under control."
We hope that every citizen will
assume his responsibility for the
protection of his neighbor and
himself from this dreaded dis-
ease by giving to this cause,"
Ashton continued.
Sixty per cent of the funds
raised in Texas will be retained
in the state for local use. This
money will be used for (1) educa-1 ease," Ash*on said.
tional work to teach the public
the danger signals of cancer, how
eanncer can be cured in about 50
per cent of the cases when treat-
ed early; (2) detection clinics to
provide thorough examinations
for persons recognizing the dan-
ger signals, and (3) aid to the
cancer patient confined to the
home.
The remaining 40 per cent will
be used by the national organiza-
tion, primarily for research work
in seeking to eliminate cancer.
"Your gift now to fight cancer
may pi otcct your home or the one
next door from this terrible dis-
Final Tribute is
Paid to U. S. Chief
Justice High Court
Harlan F. Stone
Is Laid to Rest
In Solemn Rites
WASHINGTON, April 25. (UP)
—The high and the humble of a
sorrowing capital paid final trib-
ute to Harlan Fiske Stone, 12th
Chief Justice of the United States
at solemn rites in Washington's
towering Episcopal cathedral to-
day.
President Truman, cabinet
members, justices and members
of Congress joined hundreds of
lessors citizens at the funeral ser-
vice in the vaulted nave of the
Gothic church.
At 1 p. m. (C'ST), the black-
draped casket of the 73-year-old
jurist who died Monday was car-
ried by uniformed Supreme Court
guards through the cathedral's
arched doorway and placed at the
intersection of the arms of the
cross which form the cathedral's
basic design.
The 2,500 mourners listened
reverently as the Rev. Fleming
James ot Sewanee, Tenn., an old
friend ot the Chief Justice, spoke
the opening lines of the Episco-
pal service for the dead:
"1 am the resurrection and the
life . . . whosoever liveth and be-
lievth in me shall nevei die. . . "
STEVENSON URGES
BALANCED BUDGET
Box Church 4-H Club
Girls Study Making
Of Quick Breads
The Box Church 4-11 Club girls
met Thursday at school. The
meeting was called to order by
i President Georgia May Barker.
After the roll had been called
j and minutes read and approved,
j visitors were presented by the
teacher, Mrs. Inez Seay and spon-
sor, Mrs. Lenaman.
In the business meeting a dis-
cussion was held about the dis-
trict camp and 4-H short course
at Texas A. and M. college.
A demonstration on making
quick breads was given by the
i Home Demonstration agent, Mrs.
Nan Mangold. She gave recipes
and showed how to measure and
mix the ingredients.
After the bread was cooked,
the girls sampled the hot biscuits
and muffins, spread with butter
A nut date loaf was also cooked.
For the next meeting on May 8,
each girl is to make u"nd bring
some of these breads for a club
show. The products will be judg-
ed.
Firing Range for
Mexia State Guard
Nears Completion
The rifle range being con-
structed near Shiloh for use of
members of the Mexia company
of the Texas State Guard is near-
ing completion and will be ready
for firing practice by a week from
Sunday, Capt. M. M. Jackson,
commander of the local militia,
announced today.
The'range is 200 yards long and
is composed of five targets.
Work on the facilities has been
carried on through a joint ar-
rangement between the State
Guard and the City of Mexia.
Drillers Skid West
After Losing Hole
in Mexia Oil Test
Drillers of the C.W.Killough No.
1 Arnett, near the old Confederate
Reunion Grounds, lost the hole
because of conditions which they
were unable to overcome, C. W.
Ivillough announced today.
Contractors, the F. K. Lytle
drilling company, are skidding
the drilling equipment 100 feet
west in preparation to spud in at
a new location, Killough said.
The hole was abandoned at
5,083 feet after discovering an 11-
foot sand in the Rhodessa whicla
showed gas and oil.
Killough said that drillers will
rirtH thf* wrtttrrrthe-new site ac-
cording to the original agreement
of a projected depth of 200 feet
into the Travis Peak, or a maxi-
mum depth of 6,000 feet.
Daughter Born to
Mrs. Monroe Ward
Wednesday Morning
A daughter was born to Mrs.
Monroe Ward, wife of the late
Doctor Monroe Leamon Ward of
Odessa, Wednesday, April 24,in a
local hospital. The baby weighed
seven pounds and four ounces at
birth aind has been named Linda
Lea.
Mis. Ward is the former Miss
Madeline Goolsby of Wortham.
First Wool Sold
SAN ANGELO, Tex., April 25.
(UP)—The first sale of 1946
spring wool in Texas was reported
here today.
A 30,000-pound clip of 12
months wool from the ranch of
Mrs. Russell Callan of Menard
was sold to a representative of a
Boston wool firm.
AUSTIN, Tex., April 24. (UP)—
Economists have not altered the
Biblical seven "lean" and seven
I "fat" years, Gov. Coke R. Steven-
son of Texas said here today in j
urging a balanced federal budget. '
Banker and rancher, the tall
j Texas governor had no doubt that
cycles occur. Knowing that, he
said, "the thing to do is to build
up a surplus in the good years to
offset the bad years that we know
I arc bound to come."
FARM NEEDS
Semesan Jr.. for Seed Corn
Semesan Bel for Potatoes
Ceresan ior Cotton
Inoculato Seed Before Planting with NITRAGEN
Fruit Tree Spraying Material
Lime Sulfur. Wetable Sulful, Zinc Sulfate, Arsenate Lead
Garden Dust, Copperas. Aluminum Sulfate
Black Leaf 40 for Gardens and Shrubbery
COMPLETE STOCK OF ALL ANIMAL AND POULTRY
VACCINES. TONICS AND SUPPLIES
Lederle's, Franklin, Anchor, Globe, Cutter, Salbury's
LeGear's, Lee's
KendHckfjHoi
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