The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1939 Page: 1 of 8
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Oldest Business Institution in Cass County—Established 1876
VOLUME 64
LINDEN, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1939
NUMBER 52
Cass County Boy
Aboard the Tuscaloosa
Corporal Maxwell H. Davis, well
known throughout Cass County
for bis exploits in basket ball, base-
ball and football with the Cross
Roads and Hughes Springs schools,
was one of the forty-one U. S. Ma-
rines permanently stationed on
board the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa a
few Jays ago when that ship made
a thrilling rescue of several hun-
dred members of the German liner
"Columbus" four hundred miles
<\tt Cape Henry, Virginia. This is
one of the many experiences Davis
has had since joining the Marine
Corps in September, 1936, at Dal-
las, Texas. He has made two
trips to the Hawaiian Islands, a
goodwill cruise around South
America, and the Presidential
Cruise last summer. His travels
have carried him from Seattle,
Washington, completely around
South America and as far north as
the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
Insuranee Fraternity Sees
Increased Business Ahead
A business impetus that bids fair
to continue unabated into 1940 is
wen in a brief economic survey
just made by the life insurance fra-
ternity, according to C. H. Hefner,
representative of the Southwestern
Life Insurance Company here.
A few of the national barometers
embodied in the survey to which
Mr. Hefner referred include:
An increase of 86% in the build-
ing industry, the highest udvance
since June, 1937, with private
awards 182% larger for this period
of the year than the same period
of 1938.
Motor oar sales setting an all-
time high, with the greatest volume
of unfilled orders in the history of
this industry.
A rapidly evpanding volume of
orders for airplane production,
with more than $200,000,000 in re-
quest? pending.
Steel mills of the nation operat-
ing at 100% capacity, and produc-
tion averages exceeding all previ-
our records (war orders not in-
cluded).
A gain of 24% in paint sales.
Railroads and truck lines enjoy-
ing best business in years.
The report, Mr. Hefner said,
pointed to inrcased employment
nationally, with actual shortage of
skilled workers claimed in some
spots.
We are sorry to report Will Kas-
ling not feeling so well.
Kildare Girls Defeat
Zwolle, La.
On Wednesday night, Dec. 20,
the Kildare girls were guests of the
Zwolle, La., girls' basket ball team
in Zwoole.
The Kildare girls played their
usual good game and returned vic-
tors by the score of 37-32. This
game was the 13th victory for the
Eagles this season.
The sportsmanship of the Zwolle
girls was of the highest type. Mr.
Holliday and his girls went out of
the way to be nice to our girls.
May he and his girls have many
victories this year.
The next time the Kildare girls
will be seen in action will be Jan.
5-6, when they meet Castor, the
Louisiana state champions, in the
Kildare gym.
C. C. Alexander.
Grade Crossing
Elinmiations
Figures released by the Texas
Highway department on Grade
Crossing Elimination show that
521 grade separations have been
built from 1917, the beginning of
Highway Department, to August
31, 1939, with the 33 under con-
struction or approved for construc-
tion, making a total of 554. There
were also 814 grade crossing elimi-
nated by relocation of the high-
ways, with sixteen more under cou-
atruction or approved for construc-
tion, total 83 .
While the majority of the grad-
crossings have been eliminated in
recent years. I i.is is an average of
63 eliminations for each of trie 22
years I he i>< p .rtment has •■perated
and over a 5 month. In addition,
highway protection dashing signals
have recently bee.i installed at 148 j
crossing*, 21 more are being in-
stalled or are appro. <d for instal-
lation.
The result of this important
means of safegarding the traveling
public is reflected in a 14% reduc-
tion in fatalities n acidents of rail-
road crossings fort lie first 10 month
of 1939 over the same period in
1938. In some states, grade cross-
ings or streets or highways with
very little traffic are closed as an
inexpensive and a certain means of
averting collisions. Present Tex-
as laws will not permit the High-
way Department to close railroad
grade crossings.
J. ( . King, oi Atlanta was a
business visit r to Linden Tuesday
LITTLE MAN WHAT NOW?
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r* w > highest wages
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highest living
standard
the woato
From The County
Agents Office
Several farmers are buying a few
of the cotton seed that is one and
one-half inch staple or longer, to
plant on rich bottom land. You see
there is no cotton program affect-
ing this lint. These men Aire mere-
ly experimenting,as it is not known
if the cotton will grow in our bot-
ton lands.
The best hay the county agent
has seen is made by growing Ootton
ten soy beans, cutting and putting
in the barn in three or four hours
after cutting. Ask Judge Glass
about his experience, and go look
at his fine hay. The Palmetto bean
is just as good, the harder to get a
start of seeds, as it so new and in
much demands It seeds welt here
in Cass County having a large yel-
low bean.
Letters will soon be going out to
the land owners asking them to
join a three program of helping
their farms. These letter are from
the County agent, and he is prom-
ising those who co-operate that he
will visit each farm and spend an
hour visiting the work the farmers
is doing and will discuss the far-
mers problem on the farm. The
three way program is; pastures,
two acres or more, learning how to
duplicate or exceed what is done at
Hope, Arkansas. (2) Home orchard
having enough peaches and other
fruit on the farm for home use,
learning how to control the pest
which make for inferior fruit. (3)
Building up the soil duplicating
the methods of Georgia which has
a state average of 400 pounds of
lint per acre (they got about 18
dollars an acre pea check this year
for a state average). Our land
will do as well or better than their
land.
Tractors are getting started in
Cass County. The movement will
increase, for the farmer can work
more land,will get a larger division
of the pea check and will be able
to make larger net earning because
he will be working more land,
hereby reducing his overhead. The
tendency for beginners with trac-
tors is to overload them. They
generally wont handle as many
acres as the salesmen say they will
—not properly anyway. Buy cot-
tonseed now; they are cheaper now
than they will be later.
For wilt resistent strains there is
nothing yet found to beat Miller
610. It is early, good staple, high-
est yielder on wilt land. It has
been proved that an extra amount
o! potash in your fertilizer helps to
control wilt. A 6-8-8 fertilizer on
wilt land produced twice as much
lint cotton as 6-8-0. The Miller
610 can be bought in Cherokee
County. Perhaps the county agent
at Husk may help you.
Write your county agent now
for a pruning and spray book for
your orchard. His supply will be
in shortly and on arrival he will
send you one.
Write to your Congressman for
a marvelous new book put out by
the Department of Agriculture
called "Human and Animal Nutri-
tion." In a few weeks the supply
will be out and your chance will be
gone. If you want to know how
to feed animals or humans, and in
the correct way, at tho proper cost
figure, write for that book. It
wont be easy reading; you will have
to study it. It is a college course
in feeding and to the exceptional
farmer will be a blessing.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl C. Penny re-
turned to their home in Granberry,
Wednesday, after spending the
holiday season with the latters pa-
rents here, Rev. and Mrs. Jesse G.
Cooke.
General view of REA Farm Equipment Tour which will come to this community i
How electricity can profitably be
put to work on the farm, to cut
production costs and chore drud-
gery, and to bring ease and econ-
omy to household tasks, are cen-
tral demonstrations of the big REA
Farm Electric Equipment Show
brought here through the coopera-
tion of the Bowie-Cass Electric
Cooperative, neighboring coopera-
tives, in Upshur and Wood Counties
the State Extension Service, and
the Rural Electrification Adminis-
tration.
The big tent will be set up on a
Farm South of Pittsburg, 10 miles
on Highway 271, January 22 and
open for the first meeting Monday
night at 7:30 p. m. The program
will run through the afternoon and
evening of the following day.
The power demonstration will
show shelling and grinding local
grains and feed crops hauled in
from nearby farms, in a graphic
presentasion of the great advant-
ages of automatic operation where-
by smaller capacity mills can be
satisfactorily used. Farm people
can see in actual operation at the
show, a much wider variety of elec-
trically powered farm machinery,
pumps, mills, motors, and other
farm equipment, as well as a great
variety of convenient home appli-
ances, than they have ever been
able to find anywhere in local com-
munities. Mr. J. R. Cobb, of REA
and an agricultural engineer of the
Extension Service, will manage the
power demonstration.
As rural lines have spread
through the country as a result of |
such community efforts as those!
put forth by the members of •
Bowie-Cass Rural Electric Cooper-
ative, poultry raising has increased.
Poultry lights and running water
alone provide healthier birds, low-
ered production costs, and aid in
producing larger, better eggs.
Electric brooders do away with
weary trips to the brooder house
in the middle of a cold night to ad-
just the burners or trir up the fire.
They are safe and dependable With
automatic thermostats to control
the temperature, there are n t vide
variations to endanger the health
of the chicks.
Meals big enough to till half a
dozen harvest hands will be pre-
pared in the electric range demon-
strations conducted by Mis- !'arris,
REA home economist. In the cook-
ery demonstration, conducted as a
part of the afternoon pr axim in
the big tent, the farm win n will
have opportunities to disco- the
fast new electric ranges T will
see, too, how the ranges op ite as
economically as any other o • iking
devices, offering half the <• t.eni-
ence, and how, by the n e auto-
matic devices, the rauge c lieve
the home maker from a deal
of kitchen drudgerv T will
show how the home mav
have a complete hot me«: |y to
serve at supper time I still
spend the whole aftein< away
from her kitctjen.
Hot dogs, electric fried :i!nbur-
gers, beans, piping hot cofi'e . will
be available all day and evening at
the all-electric lunch stand under
the direction ol home demonstra-
tion agents. Members of the dif-
ferent Clubs will use common home
appliances, such as small electric
hot plates, coffee makers, and elec-
tric roasters, to get up hot dishes
or tour visitors.
£et'$ Help
FINLAND
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HELEN HAYES, one of America's foremost actresses, posed for
thi* poster to aid the Finnish Relief drive headed by former
president Herbert Hoover.
Prominent Caves
Springs Citizen Dies
Mr. S. M. Wells, 80, died at h
home in Caves Springs community
Monday afternoon after a linger-
ing illness of several months.
Mr. Wells was one of the cour.-
ty's best citizens and a prominent
christian character in his commu-
nity. He had been a deacon of
the Caves Springs Baptist Church
for the past 26 years. It can truly
be said a good man has passed on.
Funeral .servises were held at
the Caves Springs Baptist Church
Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock,
conducted by his pastor Rev. Ed-
gar Hamilton, assisted by Rev.
Forest Strichland. Burial was in
Caves Springs cemetery with Fant
Funeral Directors in charge.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Ida Wells, three sons, Kirt, O. 0.
and Hardy Wells, one brother, Bud
Wells, and one sister, Mrs. Ben F.
Strickland.
To Order Fruit Trees
The Chamber of Commerce will
order fruit trees Tuesday, Jan. 2.
All who have not turned in orders
for some and wish to do so, get
them in at once.
W. D. BERRY, Sec.
Fourteen Cass County
Girls Enrolled at ,TSCW
Denton, December 26.—Four-
teen Cass County girls are among
the 2700 students now enrolled at
Texas State College for women.
Final tabulations show that the
school is again the largest residen-
tial women,s college in the United
States, with students from 208
Texas counties, 24 states, and three
foreign countries.
Cass County girls inclue Opa)
Paul, Mildred Sneed, Patie Fran-
cies Stewart, Ferua Mae Waters
and Elmarie White all from Atlan-
ta; Lillian Margaret Young of
Avinger; Ola Lummus of Bloom-
urg; Betty Lee McCall, Veronal)
Morris, and Y,Vonne Swint of
Douglassville; Evelyn Frances
Holiday of Hughes Springs; Reba
Harris of Marietta, Mary Kather-
ine Jones of McLeod, and Sarah
Beaver of Queen City.
Christmas activities including
dormitory parties, club festivities
and three performances of the an-
nual TSCW Nativity Pageant are
keeping i-tuc'ents 1 usy until De-
cember 22 when clsses will be dis-
missed for the Ch istmas holidays.
Returning to school on January
3, students will begin preparation
for mid-term examinations to be-
gin January 27. The next holiday
will be in the spring, April G-12.
Annual Self-Development Week
and the TSCW Mardi Gras are
among major activities of the se-
cond semester.
MASON-MAY
Mr. Claud Mason and Mrs. Or-
adelle May of Hughes Springs,
were united in marriage at the lo-
cal Baptist Parsonage Monday
evening, Rev. Jesse G. Cooke
officiating. They will make their
home in Atlanta.
To My Many Friends
In Linden
It is with a heart overflowing
with gratitude that I extend many
thanks for the magnificent Christ-
mas spirit you have shown toward
me. May you reap the harvest of
good deeds which you so richly
merit, is my prayer. Again I thank
you. R. B. Morris.
Miss Margie Shockley, had
Christmas dinner with her friends
in Jefferson.
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Banger, J. E. A. & Erwin, W. L. The Cass County Sun (Linden, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 28, 1939, newspaper, December 28, 1939; Linden, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth341590/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Atlanta Public Library.