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VOLUME 52.
Farm News
from Your
County Agent
The Farm Bureau Is having one
cl It's county-wide meetings at the
Community Home on the night of
January 29, according to Newton
Harrell, President of the county or-
ganization. Information on food
production goals, price support pro-
grams, AAA regulations, and other
items of interest to farm and ranch
people will be given. The usual en-
tertainment and social features will
also have their places on the pro-
gram. Meeting Saturday of this
week to plan the meeting will be
Mrs, F. B. Doshler, Mrs. M. B.1
Klght, Mrs. J; K. Hunt, Terrtlll t .
Christian, F. N. Bishop, Chester' Armstrong County has lost an-
Carr, Harrell and County Agent P™ a"d Jrle"drf ln
Leon Ranson. .death of Mr. H. S Hudson,
Regulations for 1943 do not years,old' *h° d'ed M°n?*y nl°n'"
thnt thprp hP Rnv "lay out" J£m' 4' 1943 8t 11:30 0C'°Ck'
in the family home at Goodnight.
Mr. Hudson, a retired farmer, had
resided in the Ooodnight commun-
ity for 3G years, during which time
he was trustee and deacon of the
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CLAUDE, ARMSTRONG COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JAN. 8, 1943
NUMBER 20.
H. S. Hudson
Died Monday at
Goodnight
AAA
require that there be any
land on the farm. This year far-
mers mav plant feed crops such as
barley, oats and grain sorghums on
this acreage
Wheat regulations ln regard to „ ... _ .,
harvesting excess volunteer are the ■ Goodnight Baptist Church
same as in 1942. The excess volun-
The News will greatly miss Mr.
teer can be harvested and stored Hudson s many visits to hte office
on the farm. The producer will be!t0 lalk P°lltlC8 and the ^mociratlc
eligible for a loan on his normal Iparty of wh'ch ',e was s° fond'
production. His AAA payments will 0" ttnd on for the pastu 30 years
not be made however, until he has he llelPed ln many ways, by frv ng
complied the following year. Ion varlous committees in the in-
Farmers of the county will bign!tereBt of his "arty- The edlt01" al"
their AAA Farm Plan Sheets and . ways called him "You °ld Dcmo"
establlsh their Food Production;trat You " But the,e
Goals during the week of February I or less minor activities of Mr. Hlld"
lst. In a joint meeting of the Ison- Goodnight neighbors could bet-
ter tell the story of his kindness,
keen intelluctual sight and interest
Tough Going for Planes on Captured I iel<
County War Board and County
AAA Committee last Monday, It
was decided that the sign up will
be held ln each community start-
ing February 1st. Members of these
committees, Community AAA Com-
mittees, and office employees will
assist in this work. Members of the
War Board are Newton Harrell,
Davis Burrow and Leon Ranson.
The County AAA Committee is Har-
rell, Alfred Reck and D. K Mc-
Gehee.
There are several grain sorghums
that are suitable for combining and
which produce Just as sood as the
old crook necked maize, according
to County Agent, Leon Ranson.
"Sine farm labor is such a problem
farmers are going to turn to these
strains in 1943," he said. 'A maize
which produced good yields in this
county ln 1942 Is known as Martin
Maize. It grows to Just the right
height for combining, has a strong
straight stalk, will stand until frost,
and is high in feeding value." the
agent said.
Early Hegari is a new variety
that has been developed at the
Chillicothe Experiment Station. It
is identical with the old type he-
gari except that it heads out 10
days earlier. "This crop is also
suitable for combining," Ranson
said.
Bonlta, a hybrid of hegari, kafir
and feterita has also been develop-
ed at Chillicothe. It is a double
dwarf type, very early and has the
highest grain production of any
variet> in the station tests for the
past seven years. It is also suitable
to be narvested with a combine.
Curing Meat: Farmers are not
eligible to receive additional sugar
for the purpose of curing meat.
Karo syrup can be substituted for
sugar, pound for pound, in your
favorite curing formula.
The 4-H Club Boys of tile county
have 138 pigs on feed according to
the county agent. Several of them
will be entered in the Amarillo
Show March 8 to 12, and many of
them will be seen in
of his friends and neighbors. His
dry humor and deep thinking will
be missed greatly.
Funeral services were conducted
at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon in
the Goodnight Baptist Church. Rev.
C. B. Stovall, pastor, officiated.
Burial was in Goodnight Cemetery
under direction of Blackburn-Shaw
Funeral Home.
Surviving Mr. Hudson are the
wife; two daughters, Mrs Lucille
Mayes, Anton, Tex., and Mrs. H. W.
Haislip, Ardmore, Okla.; two sons
Clarence and Vernon, both of Good-
night; two brothers, L. H. Hudson,
Quinlan, Tex., and Marshall Hud- j
son, Dallas: and one sister, Miss I
Anna Hudson, Dallas. *
Three Minute Sermon
By Rev. Wendell P Loveless,
Director of WMBI
The Moody Bible Institute
of Chicago
The airport at Sail, French Morocco, offered hard going for nav>
planes which landed as the field was captured from the French. In pic
lure at top, men are laying a metal strip for takeoff of the torpedo bombei
before which they are working. These metal strips have since playe
an important part in Allied air operations in Tunisia. Below: A navj
dive bomber lies nosc-down in a ditch near the Safi airport. Anothe:
lakes off. nsinrr the roadway for n rmuvay.
Vital 1943 War
Foods May Be
Lost in Waste
County Agent Receives Message
From Cream Program Coordinator
America's farmers must keep an
eye on the quality of their cream
while they strive to produce the
huge quantity of butterfat asked
cf them for the war effort during
THE LORD—OCR ARM
Text: "O Lord, be gracious untoi the new year of 1943, H. C. Darger
us* we have waited for thee: be coordinator of the National Cream
thou their arm every morning, our j Quality Program, Chicago, states in
salvation also in the time of trou-1 a message received by L C. Ranson
ble." Isaiah 33:2.
The prophet Isaiah is in the text
directing the thought of Israel to
the King-Deliverer who shall come
in power and glory to deliver Is-
rael from her enemies. But while
this promise is to Israel, it may
also be, in a spiritual sense, to us
as Christians.
For what do we use our arms
every morning? As we consider their
daily uses, we may be helped to
realize what our God is to us.
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request for additional amounts.
Better Varieties of Wheat are the
constant goal of experiment sta-
tions. A new variety known as
Comanche was released in the fall
of 1942. It has outyielded all others
at the Chillicothe station for sever-
the county al yews, and has the good baking
for which have not qualities desired by bakers. Herbert
| Hunt, 2 miles West of Claude, has
Farm Trucks and a demonstration plot of thus wheat
show, dates
been set.
Gasoline for
Pickups: The ODT has advised the! on his farm.
agent that farmers should make Two other varieties now known
their appeals for additional gaso- as No. 26984 and No 303 are being
line as soon as possible. Those who | developed by the stations. They
need more gasoline than was al-j are not out of the experimental
loted on their Certificate of War' stage, but if they prove to be of
Necessity should bring their cer- j value to the wheat growers they
tlficates to the agent's office as will be released for general farm
soon as possible and make their planting later, n
Armstrong county agricultural agent
Mr. Darger's message was sent in
connection with the scheduled ob-
servance throughout the county and
country on Tuesday, January 12, of
Farm Mobilization Day proclaimed
by President Roosevelt with tfie ob-
ject of "ensuring for the year 1943
the maximum production of vital
foods."
"Failure by many farmers to safe-
guard quality may result in cream
so bad that state and federal laws
will not permit its use for making
butter—a true Victory food," Mr.
Darger writes. During 1942 an es-
timated 30 to 50 million pounds of
cream—enough to make more than
a thousand carloads of butter—had
to be rejected by creameries and
cream buyers as unfit. In addition,
huge quantities of finished butter
were seized and condemned because
made of poor cream that had 'got-
ten by'. This represents not only
the loss of valuable foodstuff badly
needed by our armed forces but
also a loss of many millions of dol-
lars to the farmers whose labor
went into the production of this
large volume of unacceptable cream.
To the extent that we arc able to
whittle down the amount of poor
and rejected cream mentioned, the]
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N
Seven Panhandle men graduated
Dec. 24 from the six-weeks course
in air-plane mechanics at the Lub-
bock twin-engine advanced flying
school Men graduating are left to
right and standing: Pvt. Elmer K
Kleman of Nazareth; Pvt. Ben G.
Wilson of Claude; Pvt. John J.
Qoodger of Kress- Cpl. Noel Wag-
goner of Claude, an instructor;
Lieut. H. W Ladd, director; Pvt
Phillips B Carlson of Amarillo; and
Pvt. Max W Mitchell of Borger
In front of the motor are Pvt.
Doyle P. Hugnes of Phillips on the
left and Pvt. Leroy Maronev of
Childress on the right #
Point Rationing
System May Start
in February
Agriculture Secretary Wickard
directed OPA to begin rationing
about 200 canned, frozen and dried
vegetables and fruits as soon as
machinery could be set up. U. S
civilians will eat nearly one-third
less of these foods in 1943 than
they have been accustomed to eat-
ing. Wickard said, but their diets
can still be well-balanced and heal-
thful. Rationing in the U. S. does
not mean sub-standard diets.
OPA said the rationing would be-
gin in early February under the
"point" system. Supplies of goods
to be rationed will be temporarily
and briefly frozen on retailers' shel-
ves and in distributors' and proces-
sors' warehouses, and before being
issued a ration book consumers will
have to declare whatever canned
goods they have on hand so that
these goods can be deducted from
their allowances. Heavy penalties
will be imposed for giving false
information.
Under the point system, the
housewife uses her stamps when
she buys rationed foods from the
storekeeper, the storekeeper uses
the stamps when he buys from his
supplier, and the supplier, in turn,
uses the stamps to buy from his
canner or from another supplier.
All along the line, there is com-
plete freedom of choice. And since
the point values are the same in
every store throughout the nation,
the retailer's business ln these ra-
tioned foods will be limited only
by the point value of the stamps
he takes in from his customers.
Thus, according to Elmer Davis,
Director of th" OWI, competition
in the trade will be maintained,
and a minimum of record keeping
will be required of the storekeeper. #
JANICE BAGWELL TO BECOME
BRIDE OF 11. L. BERG
Miss Janice Bagwell, bride-elect
of Flight Officer H. L. Berg of Long
Beach. Calif., was honored with a
miscellaneous shower Friday at the
Hugh Doak home in Claude. Miss
Kathryn Doak ond Mrs. H. D.
Grimes were hostesses.
Miss Bagwell, a daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. R L. Bagwell of Claude
is a student of Texas Technological
College. Lubbock, and will receive
the bachelor of business adminis-
tration degree at mid-term. Shortly
after graduation she will leave for
Caifornia where she and Flight Of-
ficer Berg will be married.
A dinner was given recently hon-
oring Miss Bagwell at the home of
her sister, Mrs. John T. Morris. #
CLAUDITE8 PICK TP
LT. I.Ol'IS HAYWARD
Mr. and Mrs John Jones and
Mrs. C R Jones, while on business
at the English Field in Amarillo,
were asked to carry a passenger
into town and willingly complied
But it was not until after they
had delivered their passenger to the
Rraniff depot in Amarillo that they
discovered he was Lt. Louis Hay-
ward, the stage and motion picture
star from Hollywood, who stopped
for several hours ln Amarillo when
hi.s plane was grounded due to
weather conditions. The Jone's were
glad to find that after all we are
all human under the skin. «
Armies Fighting
Over Historic
Ground in Africa
Tire war in North Africa, par-
ticularly on the Tunisian front, is
being fought over historic ground.
Over all of this ground armies
have marched before, drenching its
soil with blood; armed horsemen by
the thousands rode over it and in
one battle the Carthaginians used
a herd of elephants bearing armed
swordsmen and lancers to lead the
assault upon the Romans
It was the war between Rome
and Carthage more than 2,000 years
ago that has given this area its
greatest historic importance. Site
of ancient Carthage is on the Bay
of Tunis between the cities of Tunis
and Bizerte which are being fought
over today. The site is marked on
the map showing the North African
war zone,
Carthage was built about 850 B
C. by Queen Dido on ground on
which a great city had stood 800
years earlier covered by the dust of
centuries. As Carthage grew in po-
pulation and wealth because of its
vast trade with all the then-known
world it became militaristic and
sent out armies of conquest. One
of these, led by Hannibal, greatest
of all Carthagianian leaders, cross-
ed the Mediterranean, invaded
Spain and crossed the Alps into
Italy where he won victory after
victory and began thinking of world
domination which later proved his
downfall.
Obliged to leave garrisons in con-
quered territory, Hnnibal returned
across the Mediterranean where his
armies met the Roman legions un-
der Scipio, on the plains of Tunisia
in the decisive Battle of Zama,
2 144 years ago. Exact location of
this battle site is not known but
undoubtedly guns, trucks and tanks
of the AEF and British army are
again rumbling over this historic
ground while bombers and fighter
planes are soaring thru the sky
above it.
Weakened by his garrisons left
in Europe, Hannibal's forces, witi
their "elephant cavalry" v< >e de-
cisively defeated by the Romans
and peace was dictated by the coi -
auerors. Caviling'., after turning)
over i*s warsh'3s and clep .rants to
the Romans wjs destroyed and its
ruined site 'cbtoden to be usf/1
as hunrin habitation B?;in.
In time, however, the Romans
themselves rebuilt the city which
played a part in early Christian
history. In 430 A. D. it was virtually
destroyed by the Vandals. Captured
by the Byzantine Empire in 533
A- D. the city flourished once more,
but in 698 A. D. was finally wiped
off the map by the Arabs who had
become powerful by that time
Modern counterpart of Hannibal
is Adolph Hitler whose early suc-
cesses also went to his head, stimu-
lating dreams of world conquest.
And like Hannibal's, Hitlers star
will set with the same disastrous
results to the German people suf-
fered by the Carthagians #
DATE ON CANNING SUGAR
EXPIRED DEC. 31, 1942
We are not allowed to issue any
canning sugar for 1943, until our'
allotment for each person has been
announced. This allotment will pro-!
bably be announced in the early |
spring months—Signed, Armstrong j
County War Price & Rationing
Office. M
For Defense
1
Telling American women the
story of new cotton garments for
women working in agriculture and
defense industries, Camille Ander-
son of Memphis the 1912 Maid of
Cotton, is making a 100-day tour
of 25 major industrial cities from
New York to San Francisco. Miss
Anderson is appearing as guest
and featured model in all-cotton
fashion shows in each city. Her
lour is sponsored by the National
Cotton Council and Cotton-Textile
Institute, the Memphis Cotton
Carnival Association, and the Cot-
ton Exchanges of Memphis, New
York and New Orleans.
HOME NURSING COURSE
STARTS MONDAY
A Home Nursing Course will start
Monday, Jan. 18th, at the Com-
munity Home and will be directed
by Mrs. Pete Morris. Anyone in-
terested in taking tire course is
asked to call Mrs. Merle Nelson
immediately. *
CHARLES T BARCLAY
FUNERAL CONDUCTED
Funeral services lor Charles Tho-
mas Barclay, 66 years old, who died
Sunday night, Dec 27, at his home
i in Washburn, were held at 2:30
o'clock Wednesday afternoon in
Blackburn-Shaw memorial chapel
I with Rev. Jeff Moore of Claude,
officiating Interment was made in
Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr Bar-
clay had farmed in the Washburn
vicinity for nearly a quarter of a
century. Besides the widow, a bro-
ther and two sisters survive him. tt
ARMSTRONG CO. FEDEK \TION
The Armstrong County Federa-
tion will meet at the Community
Home Saturdaj afternoon at 2 30
Members and interested parties are
urged to attend.
Local Agricultural
Report for 1942
By LEON RANSON, Agent
Editors Note: Beginning this week
the News is carrying the 1942 An-
nual Report of County Agent, Leon
Ranson. It is a report of the activi-
ties of the farm and ranch people
of Armstrong County and their con-
tribution to the war effort in 1942.
The report consists of 13 stories,
one or more of which will be car-
ried each week. This is a report of
what you and your neighbors have
done. We hope you will read every
line of ti. The first part follows:
I. OBJECTIVES
Increased income and better liv-
ing conditions for all farm and
ranch families, was tbe definite ob-
jective of the extension program in
1942 This was to be achieved by
(1) conservation of soil and water
12) prevention of wind erosion, <3
lowered death rate among livestock
and increased production of meat
by the control of diseases, parasites
and insects; improved feeding prac-
tices. and improved management
practices. (4) increased production
of wheat, oats and barley by the
use of improved and adapted varie-
ties of seed, and 15 > improvement of
health, strength and courage thru
better diets, and increased emphasis
on the production of home food
supplies.
These objectives were set out by
the men members of the County
Landuse Planning Committee on
December 5, at the beginning of the
program year. After Pearl Harbor
just two days later, these objectives
were enlarged and added to. Great-
er emphasis was placed on the lm-
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HQ. Punkihsmido^
If a fellow tries to kiss a woman
and gets away with lt he's a man;
if he tries and doesn't get away
with it he's a brute; if he doesn't
try but would get away with lt IX
he tried he's a coward; but If he
doesn't try and wouldn't have got-
ten away with lt If he tiled he's
wise.
Dr. J J Longhagen: "Well, Kleth
how are your marks?"
Kieth Vlersen: "They're under
water "
Dr.: "What do you mean, under
water?"
Kieth "Below 'C' level."
The famous detective arrived on
the scene.
"Heavens," he said, "this is more
serious than I thought—the window
is broken on both sides."
Teacher: "Can anyone tell what
causes trees to become petrified?"
LaDon Wheeler "The wind makes
them rock."
Jim Deaton. carrying a large sack
of potatoes along a lonely road,
was over-taken by a mar. driving
a team hitched to a wagon.
The driver offered Jim a lift,
which he gladly accepted, but still
kept the sack of potatoes on his
back. The driver told him to put
them down in the wagon.
"Suie," Jim replied. "I'm thank-
ful for the lift you gave me, but
I don't want you to be burdened
with the taters as well."
Prospective Boarder: 'The window
is quite small, lt wouldn't be much
good in an emergency."
Mary had a little lamp,
She filled it with benzine;
She went to light her little lamp,
And hasn't since benzine.
Doctor
Conrad):
(aftei examining Clete
"I tfon't like the looks of
vour husband. Mrs. Conrad."
1 Mrs. Conrad: "Neither do I, Doc-
tor, but he's good to the children."
\ ajrabond
A kiss is a peculiar proposition. Of
no use to one, yet absolute bliss to
two The small boy gets it for noth-
ing, the young man has to lie for
it, and the old man has to buy it.
The baby's right, the lover's pri-
vilege, and the hypocrite's mask.
To a young girl, faith; to a mar-
ried woman, hope; and to an old
maid charity.
John McWhirter: "What are you
wearing your glasses to bed for?"
R B Harper: "I want to get a
better look at that gal I dreamed
about last night."
Mrs, Hardy Harris: "Does Robert
talk in his sleep?"
Mrs. Robert Hayhurst No, and
it's terribly exasperating. He Just
grins.''
A dansa,
A data,
Perchanca
Out lata,
A classa,
A quizza.
No passa—
Gee whizza!
Brides of service men around
New London, Conn., are so numer-
ous the U.S.O club has opened
cooking classes for them. Not a
bad idea, whether for peace or war-
time And one that USO. centers
elsewhere should find a useful an>1
popular activity. #
Eastern Visitor: "Has the advent
of the radio helped ranch life?"
Pinto Pete: "I'll say it has. Why,
we learn a new cowboy song every
night, and, say, we've found out
that the dialect us fellers have used
fer years is all wrong."
Perhaps the reason a woman
office-seeker usually isn't success-
ful is that when she throws her
hat into the ring nobody can fig-
ure out what it is.
Private: "D'ye think they'll ever
send me overseas. Sarge?"
Serg.: "Not unless we're invaded!"
He: "How about some old-fash-
ioned loving?"
She: "All right, I'll call grandma
down for you."
Will Rogers'
Humorous Story
By WILL ROGERS
CALESMANSHIP is the greatest
^ American art. It takes a genius
to sell most stuff. Some guys 1
know can sell broker lamp chim-
neys for twice what they cost
new, right on Broadway.
A fellow applied for a job selling
toothbrushes for a jobber. "I'm
the best salesman in the world," h*
told the jobber.
The gagster who accused this
baby kangaroo of being kicked oul
of its mother's pouch for eating
crackers in bed. might know by this
picture that the youngster, despite
the fact that it is on Its own. is doing
very well, thank you. Open air mess
Is picnic time, and a generous offi-
cer like this one (commander of an
Australian armored division) pro
ctedm to make life easy for tbe baby
vagabond. _ ^
He was out a month and com*
hack with every tooth brush unsold.
"Well," he says, "I guess I ain't
the best salesman in the warld,
xactly. I'm only &x,zd best The
cuy that sold you these her*
rickety tooth brushes in the ftr*t
place is the best in the world."
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