The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1941 Page: 3 of 8
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The Mineola Monitor, Mineola, Texas, Thursday, February 27,1941.
Texas Farmers
Contributing To
Defense Program
College Station. — Mainten-
ance and improvement of the
lation's most important natural
;source—the soil—is the farm-
er's and ranchman's job in the
national defense program.
Texas farmers and ranchmen
are doing their share in this
task, B. F. Vance, administra-
tive officer in charge of the
Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration in Texas, told the
Southern Regional conference of
the AAA in New Orleans last
The Times Herald
A REAL NEWSPAPER
More features—More news,
local, state, and national
See—
W. J. PARR
Local Agent
Jo Relieve
Misery
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LIQUID. TABLETS. SALVE .NOSE DROPS
week.
With enormous surpluses of
the basic commodities already
stored in the nation's ware-
houses and on the farms, the
problem today is not one of
producing abundantly but of
maintaining and improving the
soil's fertility, the Texas ad-
ministrator said. Tlie fact that
more Texas farmers and ranch-
men in the state cooperated
with the AAA conservation pro-
gram in 1940 than ever before
is ample proof that Texas ag-
riculture is cooperating, he de-
clared.
The speaker cited a few of
the accomplishments of an es-
timated 637,000 farmers coop-
erating with the program in
the field of conservation in
1940: the construction of near-
ly 23.000 miles of water sav-
ing terraces; contour farming
of intertilled crops on 4,250,000
acres of cropland; planting
soil building crops on 10,250.000
acres, and contour listing, sub-
soiling or furrowing on 2,105,-
000 acres of non-crop open pas-
ture land. These were only a
few of the thirty-one soil-
building practices used by Tex-
as farmers in 1940, he said.
He estimated that oigthy-eight
per cent of the farmers in the
state cooperated with the pro-
gram last year.
o
Safety Lanes to
Be Discontinued
By State Patrol
ISide Glances on
f
Texas History .
Austin.—Operation of the
safety lane, one of the most
popular safety features of the
Highway Patrol, will be dis-
continued after Feb. 21, it was
announced today by Coi. Homer
Garrison jr., State Police direc-
tor.
"The enormous volume of
traffic accompanying defense
projects has caused a depletion
of Highway Patrol manpower
to such an extent that the
safety lane must be discontinu-
ed at least temporarily," Col.
Garrison said.
The safety lane, conducted
by Highway Patrolmen in con-
junction with local officers, has
tested brakes, lights, horns,
mufflers, steering, and wind-
shield wipers in more than 100
Texas towns and cities. Origin-
ally there were two safety
lanes, but one was discontinued
under the reduced appropria-
tion effective Sept. 1. 1939.
"This was a difficult choice
to make," Garrison said, "but |
the demand for additional traf-
fic control around defense pro-
jects can not go unanswered."
By CHARLES O. IIUCKER
University of Texas Library
The inspired determination
for freedom, culminating in
1836 in the permanent estab-
lishment of the Republic of
Texas, was not a new and un-
usual thing in the pioneer land
of the Southwest. Rebellion
had bubbled up before, and
once, in fact twenty-four years
before, Texans had suddenly
found independence w:thin their
grasp.
Today few remember. Who
can tell Magee, of Gutierres, of
Kemper? Few even know their
names, but records in the Uni-
versity of Texas Litiary's fam-
ous Texas Collection show that
they almost changed the course
of the history of this land.
It was in 1812. For four years
a puppet king had ruled Spain
for Napoleon. Bono parte, and
Mexico had been rocked to and
fro by revolutions which in
1821 finally gave it itr own free-
dom. For months it had known
no such thing as consistent civil
order.
Augustus Magee, a lieutenant
of the United States Army in
Louisiana, just three years out
of West Point, knew all this.
Moreover, he was young, am-
bitious and imaginative. He
dreamed of conquering Texas
and setting it free, and in the
summer of 1812 he set his
dreams into action.
On Jane 14 an army of 153
men assembled on the east
bank of the Sabine River. As
its nominal chief Magee en-
gaged Don Fernando Gutierres,
an exiled Mexican republican
leader, in an attempt to win
the backing of Mexicans in
Texas. This move, apparently
wise, proved to be his most
costly mistake.
Nevertheless, by October the
Americans had swept victorious-
ly across Eastern Texas and
were secure in Golind while a
force under the Spanish gov-
ernor tried in vain to rout them
out of its former stronghold.
The rebels now numbered al-
most a thousand and were liv-
ing comfortably off of the mili-
tary .stores captured in the
town. They had no fear of
the Spaniards.
One day, however, Magee
had a gentlemanly chat with
the governor over dinner. Just
what happened no one knows,
but Magee returned to his men
(See SIDELIGHTS, Page 7)
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MINEOLA, TEXAS
GASOLINE
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Austin.—Texas' ninety - fifth
birthday, February 19—State-
I hood Day—was observed by
I Texas Memorial Museum on
[ the University of Texas campus
I with the first public showing
j of the recently-acquired John
j Nance Garner collection.
The day was set aside at the
I museum as Texas Legislators
< Day.
| Consisting of 160 of the most
famous gavels in the country,
collected over the long period
of Mr. Garner's service, plus
300 original cartoons by. out-
standing American cartoonists,
the exhibit is to remain open
to the public.
Most cherished possession of
Mr. Garner's to be placed on
display, according to Dr. E. H.
Sellards, museum director, is
his 40-year-old political cam-
paign satchel which he carried
with him in every race in his
political career.
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Thin egg shells are often due
to the absence of enough lime-
stone or oyster shell in the
diet. * •
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Show your pompadour; reveal your bangs,
let a pure white brow emerge from your
bared hairline. Every one of these hats
makes the most of your hair style and com-
plexion. In colors that are new—like clover
pink and bachelor button blue.
Sailors . . . Pillboxes
South American Way
Military ... Off-Face Type
. . . Felts , . . Straws
Straw and Felt Trims
$i and $1.95
FAIR DRY GOODS
Mineola
SALMON
9 ins OK
Mm cans L J
1-ffi
cans
ARGO, l-'lb can 25c
* -
WITH
CO- *
v v ♦ v .
CHUM
MISSION
TliNA FISH
No. i/2 Can
AIRWAY
COFFEE
2 lbs
FRESH
SAFEWAY
BUTTER
lb
,0^
*<e
p
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(jf1 •• •
MACARONI
Gooch's, 16-oz pkg ....
MILK
Cherub, Tall Cans
HOMINY
Van Camp's No. 2 can
DINNER 0 1 Kc
Del Monico Macaroni
Cello
Bag
Pinto Beans
Pork & Beans
Palmolive Soap
Glen
Valley
lc
Sale
5
6
ft
4
Bars
BABY BEEF
ROAST
7 Cut
EDWARDS'
COFFEE
tb
JELL-WELL
Pudding
3 Pkgs
RATH'S PURE
LARD
TENDERIZED
HAMS
5 to 7 lb Ave.
Butt Cut Shank Cut
21c 19c
SLICED BOLOGNA —lb jflc
Yellow Cream
CHEESE lb 21c
Tenderized, 4 to 6 Lb Average
PICNIC HAMS lb 17<
Fresh
OYSTERS Pt 29c
Pork Shoulder
ROAST lb 17c
FRUITS A\D VEGETABLE^
SUNKIST
LEMONS
Dozen
12c
GOLDEN RIPE
BANANAS
tb
GRAPEFRUIT
Texas, 64 Size
ONIONS
Yellow -
CABBAGE
Nice, Green Texas -
TURNIPS and TOPS
Fresh Bunch
POTATOES
Rural .*..... -
5C
6 for 1 5°
3 J0C
2.bs V
5C
10 J5C
COCKTAIL
Sundown, No. 1 can
WAFERS
Vanilla, Cello Bag
BLACKBERRIES
WalOj, No. 2 cans -
PINEAPPLE
Libby's Crushed, 9-oz cans ....
JUICE
Grapefruit, Val Tex, 46-oz cans
CRACKERS
Delicious, 2-lb box
BREAD
Julia Lee Wright, 24-oz loaf
PICKLES
Farmer Boy, Dill or Sour
SOAP
P. & G., Large Size
TEA
Canterbury, *4-lb pkg
DRESSING
Duchess, qt jar
OLEO
Dalewood
lb
lb
CORN
Country Home, No. 2 can
CALUMET
Baking Powder
SUPERSUDS
Large Package
ACORN CREAM
MEAL
20 Lbs
37c
Harvest Blossom
FLOUR
48-lb Sack
$110
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The Mineola Monitor (Mineola, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 27, 1941, newspaper, February 27, 1941; Mineola, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth299054/m1/3/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Mineola Memorial Library.