Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 206, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1951 Page: 3 of 8
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Texos Reviews Record Breaking
Month Of Heot That Killed 57
DALLAS, Tex., Aug. 31 (UP)
—Sun-Weary Texans today re-
viewed a month of racord-brcak-
#ig heat which killed 51 persons
and did more than $250,000,000
crop damage—and no substan-
tial relief was in sight.
Temperature of 100 degrees;
and higher have been the rule
since Aug. 1. Showers brought
some relief, but not much.
Texans died of heat strokes in
their homes, on streets, in taxi-
cabs, on construction jobs, a.ri
^ven in prison.
• Houston wa> hardrst hi* with
13 fatalities. Dallas had 10,
Fort Worth 7 and San Antonio
5.
Cotton crops wilted at a loss
of $250,000,000. Damage was
tremendous to rangeland, vege-
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tables, corn, rice, peanuts and
grain sorghums.
Sheared grasslands forced
ranchers to market cattle pre-
maturely. Fort Worth and San
Antonio markets handled 25 per
cent more than normal volume
as gaunt steers were shipped in
near-record numbers.
The continued hot blast wiped
out Texas' hopes for a 5,000,000
bale cotton crop. Hardest hit
were central and south Texas
farms. ,
Cities faced September with
water rationing programs in ef-
fect. But Temple, in central Tex-
as, faced a real crisis.
Temple officials planned io
ship in water by railroad tank
car. The city's reservoir on the
Leon River dried up until it was
only a 13-mile-long patch of iso-
lated water holes. Reserves
stood at only a nine-day supply,
Calloway Sheet Metal Works
Sales—LENNOX—Service
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207 Pecan Street Phone 3291
and there was no prospect of
rain.
Farmers and city dwellers
alike prayed for rain as heat and
drouth records tumbled.
Dallas recorded 21 days of
100-degree or higher tempera-
tures in August, eclipsing a rec-
ord of 14 days established in
1943. Hourly temperatures,
both night and day, averaged
91.7 degrees, compared with the
previous record of 88.1 set in
August, 1943.
Highest temperatures of the
month was 116 degrees at Hen-
rietta. Reading near 110 were
common.
Lucky Texans stuck close to
air conditioners, which were
snapped off the market in short
order. But water shortages forc-
ed some cities to ban use of ev-
aporative air coolers.
A Dallas newspaper headlin-
ed today: "Mercury Dips to Cool
101 Just For Day."
Readers accepted the story at
face value—the mercury had hit
103 Wednesday, and Dallas ear-
lier had three days of 107-de-
gree temperatures.
Flimsy clothing was standard
costume throughout the state.
Merchants reported sales of fall
apparel well below normal.
Texans hoped the sie?e would
lift before the football season
opened. The weatherman declin-
ed to make a prediction.
Tired Of Picking
Cotton, Convicts
Cut Heel Tendons
HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Aug. 31
(UP) — Two city boys who
wearied of picking cotton cut
their heel tendons with a rusty
knife at Darrington Prison Farm
yesterday.
The two were Jack E. Jester,
24, serving a five-year sentence
from Houston for robbery by
assault, and David Wilson Jr.,
serving 15 years from Dallas for
robbery and theft.
Prison officials said the two
men complained yesterday of
feeling sick, although a prison
doctor examined both and found
them physically able to work.
When the convicts returned
from the fields at noon, Jester
and Wilson grabbed a rusty
knife and severed their Achilles
tendons, generally called the heel
string.
Both men are hospitalized at
Central Prison Farm No. 1 near
Sugar Land. Their punishment,
J. C. Roberts, records depart-
ment head at the state peniten-
tiary, said, will have to be de-
termined by the punishment
board.
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Farmers Warned To
Protect Land From
Winds This Winter
FORT WORTH, Aug. 28 — In
an August preview of wind ero-
sion conditions in western Tex-
as and Oklahoma, the Soil Con-
servation Service today appealed
to fanners to start plans now to
protect their lands from winter
blowing.
In a five million - acre area
south and west of Lubbock are
large acreages of sandy cotton
lands which because of dry wea-
ther will be exposed to blow-
ing if the drouth continues.
These lands are mainly in the
Lynn County, Gaines County.
Dawson County and Martin-How-
ard Boil Conservation Districts
and m the southern portion of
the Cochran-Yoakum-Terry dis-
trict, it was pointed out by Lou-
is P. Merrill, Soil Conservation
Service regional director.
Much of the cotton planted
on these loose, lands has
either failed to spi out or is up
to a poor stand, SOS field men
report to Merrill. District Con-
servationist Jesse D. Jenkins at
1,a mesa reported 100,000 acres of
cotton in this condition in the
Gaines County district and 200,-
000 in the Dawson County Dis-
trict. Chairman Dale Spence of
the Gaines County district board
of supervisors has announced
that a pamphlet put out by the
Gaines district will be distribu-
ted next week urging farmers
to make use of conservation prac-
tices to tie down their soil.
Regional SCS Director Merrill
said that if rain fails within the
next few weeks on these vulner-
able lands, growers could plant
small grains in the hope of get-
ting an adequate stand of win-
ter cover. He urged cotton grow-
ers generally to omit final cul-
tivation to permit field grasses
to furnish cover on lands that
otherwise would be unprotect-
ed.
Pa lava News
By Mrs. Bettie Hart man
PALAVA — Mr. and Mrs.
James Porter and Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Mayes made a trip
through New Mexico last week
. . . Mr. and Mrs. Punk Hart-
man visited their daughter and
family last Thursday in Cham-
pion . . . Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cald-
well and daughter, Shirley, of
Mineola visited Mrs. Caldwell's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Shar-
rock. They were enroute home
from a visit with Mrs. Caldwell's
sister, Mrs. Clarence George in
Corpus Christi.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Shedd and
daughter, Mary Loy, visited Mrs.
Shedd's sister in Utah last week
. . , Mr. and Mrs. James Por-
ter visited Mrs. Porter's brother
Claude Thompson, and family of
Roscoe recently . . The Palava
Baptist Church called the Rev.
Roy Whitsel, as pastor for the
next year.
There were d'.i present in Sun-
day School. The Baptist Training
Union met Sunday night and
elected teachers. Training Union
begins at 7:30 p. m. each Sunday.
Sweetwater Reporter, Texan, Friday, August 31, 1051
Bill Had No Use For
The Stogies Anyway!
ATLANTA, Aug. 31 (UP)
Bill Reed was laid out in his
casket just the way he requested
—with three cigars in the coat
pocket—when friend Katie Dunn
came along, Jerked up the body
by the necktie and took the stog-
ies away.
"That's a hell of a way to bury
ol' Bill," Katie said.
Bill's widow Louise called po-
lice and had Katie arrested for
disorderly conduct. When her
case came up yesterday, Katie
told Judge A. W. Callaway she
was "only straightening Bill's
tie."
The widow interrupted.
"It's a wonder you didn't take
the matches, too, you were so
drunk," she told Katie.
At this point Katie placed her-
self on the mercy of the court,
saying she did not know of Bill's
desire to be buried with the cig-
ars. She was fined $28.
Brown County Gins
First 1951 Cotton
BROWNWOOD, Aug. 30 (UP)
— Brown County's first cotton
has been picked by Ludlow Al-
len.
Allen picked the cotton from
12 acres bisecting the Brown-
Mills county line. He sold the
cotton to ginner Dyrice McDon-
ald of Brownwood for 35 cents
a pound.
The 621 pounds brought $217.-
35. McDonald donated the ginn-
ing free.
Alien's drouth-pinched dryland
field will yield only two bales
from the 12 acres.
Safety; Urged Over
Holiday Weekend
AUSTIN, Aug. 31 — Looking
ahead to the coming three-day,
week-end holiday, the Executive
Secretary of the Game and Fish
Commission listed some sugges-
tions to Texans planning to take
advantage of the north zone dove
season beginning Saturday noon.
Besides urging alertness to the
ordinary rules of safety, he ad-
monished sportsmen to be ex-
tremely careful with fire in the
fields or brush country.
"Unless substantial rainfall
comes in the drouth areas, there
will be great danger of damage
to property and game stocks
from grass and brush fires," said
the Executive Secretary.
He went on to observe that
the extreme heat, unless broken,
may cause heavy losses in
spoiled game. It was suggested
that harvested doves be picked
and drawn as soon as possible.
"Bacteria grows very fast in
extremely hot weather and it
takes only a short time for game
to spoil," he explained.
The Executive Secretary ap-
pealed to sportsmen to safeguard
various wildlife species seen on
their trips after mourning doves.
"It will be a temptation at
times to bang away at quail or
other small game," he said.
He reminded hunters that the
dove season this year is limited
to afternoons — from noon un-
til sunset — and that the limit
is ten per day or ten in posses-
sion.
New Store Hours
Are Announced
Beginning tomorrow night the
Sears Roebuck and J. C. Pen-
ney Stores will remain open un-
til 9 p. m. every Saturday night,
it was announced by managers,
E. R. Atkinson and Dee Nab-
ers.
The C. R. Anthony and Mont-
gomery Ward stores had already
begun the new fall closing hours.
Nunn, Cook To Enter
Amarillo Tennis Meet
Carl Nunn and Thomas (Smo-
ky) Cook left Friday morning
for Amarillo, where they will
compete in the five - tate ten-
nis tournament beginning today.
The two ex-Sweetwater High
School tennis stars will compete
in both doubles and singles.
Accompanying them to Amaril-
lo were Nunn's parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Leo Nunn of 1006 Pine.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dee Sharrock
entertained the young people of
the community with a dinner
Sunday at their homes . . . Miss
Peggy Thompson of Roscoe vis-
ited her aunt, Mrs. James Por-
ter and Mr. Porter over the
week end . . . Saturday visitors
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Horace Mayes were Mr. and Mrs.
Jack Terrell and son, Charles,
of Odessa and Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Allen of Boyd Chapel . . .
Don Westfall and family of Sny-
der visited his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. C. Westfall over the
week end. Mrs. Ivy Hartman
visited her sister, Mrs. Stokes
Williams, and family of Kenna,
N. M.
Santa Fe Shows
Loss In July
Due to Flood
Due to the severe floods in
Kansas and Missouri, the Santa
Fe Railway System had a net
loss in .July, 1951, of 82.567,991,
according to a statement releas-
ed by President F. G. Gurley to-
day. Net income for the first
seven months of 1951 was $24,-
102,850 compared with $30,964,-
742 in first seven months of
1950.
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Uncle Sam Needs
Those Pennies
WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (UP)
—Shake out that piggy bank-
Uncle Sam hasn't, got enough
pennies.
Nellie Tayloe Ross, director
of the mint, said that if every
family would put 10 pennies
back into circulation, the govern-
ment would save 1,260 tons of
scarce copper and five months
production in U. S. units.
She said the mints are now
working a 60-hour week and
can't kee[) up with the demand
caused by "the high level of bus-
iness activity."
In Atlanta, a "penny panic"
subsided recently when young-
sters emptied their piggy banks
in response to pleas from local
bankers.
SS Representative
Here Next Tuesday
Mr. Glen McNatt, Field Rep-
resentative ol' the Abilene office
of the Social Security Adminis-
tration, will be at the office of
the Texas Employment Commis-
sion in Sweetwater at 10:30 a. m.
on Tuesday, September 4. Per-
sons wishing assistance with re-
tirement claims or death claims
under the Social Security Act,
or needing information about
their social security accounts,
should call at that time for nec-
essary help and information.
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Baker, Allen. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 206, Ed. 1 Friday, August 31, 1951, newspaper, August 31, 1951; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth310522/m1/3/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.