The Shackelford County Leader (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1945 Page: 2 of 4
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Thursday, February 15,1945
The
Shackelford County
Leader
Published Every Thursday
CHAS. A. FRYAR, Publisher
Enl "*sed at the Postoffice at
Albany, Jhack Xord County, Texas
as Second Cl> ss Mail Matter.
Any erroneous reflection upon the
character, standing or reputation
o1 any person, firm or corporation
that may appear in the columns of
The Leader will be gladly and fully
corrected upon being brought to
the attention of the publisher.
Cards of Thanks, Resolutions of
Respect, and any kind of entertain-
ments where admission fee or
efiarges are made, will be charged
for at regular rates.
COUNTY AGENT'S
COLUMN
(By W. C. VINES)
Suggestions for
Spring Gardens
The War Food Administration
asked for one million gardens last
year out of the 20 million that were
to be planted in the United StateF.
Texas planted over 2,200,000, whil1.
the United States as a whole drop-
ped under their quota and only
planted about 19-000,000 gardens.
Texas not only went over their
quota, but the production was
much larger than that of the Na-
tion as a whole. This year they
are asking for the same number of
gardens and telling us that there
will be less food for the civilians
than in 1944. We know Shackel-
ford county is not a vegetable pro-
ducing county, but we also know
that by preparing our soil right
and getting our vegetables off to
an early start, the garden spot in
this county will pay more per acre
than any other block on the farm
or yard.
If you expect to have a spring
garden, it is time to remove all
weeds and get the soil ready. Al-
though, it is better to delay plant-
ing until the soil can be prepared
properly, than to hurry and plant
in poor soil. Bad grasses, such as
Bermuda and Johnson should be
removed. Tiny vegetable seed can-
not compete with established
grasses, and it is better to kill out
the grass before planting the gar-
den.
The soil should be plowed or
spaded at least five or six inches
deep; 10 inches would be better
and thoroughly pulverized. If the
soil breaks up cloddy, the clods
should be broken up as small as
possible, so you will be ready to
plant with the first rain. If the
soil is well prepared, well drained,
and stirred -several times before
planting, the seed will get off to a
good start.
If rotted or barnyard manure is
available, apply 50 pounds per 100
square feet before the garden is
plowed, if the supply is limited
to less than this amount, it may be
applied in the furrow just before
planting the seed, at the rate of
25 pounds per -100 feet of row
space. For best results, apply
commercial fertilizer in the row 10
to 14 days before sowing seed cr
i setting plants. If this cannot be
done, it is safe to use it at time of
planting in the following way:
Open the row, sprinkle fertilizer
in at the rate of 3 to 5 pounds per
100 feet of row, mixing thoroughly
with the soil, then plant the seed.
Irish potatoes, English peas, and
tomatoes may be given a side
dressing of fertilizer after plants
begin to gr ow.
Don't limit your garden to one
or two vegetables when there are
so many others that will grow
well. Wise planting will assure an
assortment of good vegetables.
A list of vegetables to be planted
during February are as follows:
Name of Vegetable Time to plant
1st.
15th
Asparagus
Beets
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Cauliflower
15th
.. 1st.
15th
10th
ALTMAN'S clsco
INVITES YOU
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OUR NEW
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Chard 20th
Collards *5th
Cress 20th
Garlic lst-
Kale 20th
Lettuce, head 15th
Lettuce, leaf 1st'.
Mustard 20th
Onions 10 th
Onions, sets 1st.
Parsley 15th
Potatoes 10th
! Peas, English lst.
' Salsify 15th
Shallots /. lst.
Sorrel 10th
Turnips 10th.
Slow- growing plants, such as
lettuce and cabbage may be start-
ed in a small bed to advantage.
This gives the plants a "head
start" in the early spring so that
they will be ready by garden plant-
ing time—six to eight weeks later.
A wooden box, old washtub or dish-
pan may be used. The main con-
sideration is a small container that
can be picked up and brought into
the house on cold days and nights.
Lettuce and cabbage plants can be
moved direct from the plant box to
the garden when they have attain-
ed a height of 2 to 3 inches.
The seed may be treated by mix-
ing % teasponnful of 2% ceresan
or cuprocide with 1 ounce seed.
Shake thoroughly to coat seeds
with the dust, then plant. When
small packages of seed are used
tear off the top of the package and
put in 1/8 teaspoonful of cuprocide
or ceresan, shake thoroughly and
plant.
Tomato seed should have been
put in the hot bed before now, but
if they haven't, it is time to get
them started. The good soil ma-
nure is Vz barnyard manure and Vk
sand. Plant the seed in rows when
they are about 3 to 4 inches tall,
put in individual containers and
put in the sun every day that the
| temperature is above 40 degrees.
The large tomatoes will put on
fruit if they can be started early
enough to bloom before hot weath-
er. If not, the little Porter tomato
will be the one that will pay off.
MORAN NEWS...
Personal Mention
Beautiful Bags
She'll love them.
Black and colors
$2.95 to $15.00
and Tax
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Gas Ample, Company
Announces Plans
To Aid Industries
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Darting seam-stitching lends action to this Betty Rose
suit of jeweltone, all-wool Shetland-type fabric. Every
little detail means you'll want it the minute you see
it . . . it's bright, brisk and, if you like, its business-
like.
$22.50
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^ 1 Plain and Softly Ruffled
DICKEYS and
BLOUSES
$1.00 to $6.95
COMBS— Pearl Trim
50c and $1.00
and Tax
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Plans to assist industries in lo-
cating in this section of the state
are being developed by Lone Star
Gas Company, officials of the com-
pany have announced.
The company's industrial de-
partment, which aids prospective
industries, is to be expanded to en-
courage building of factories in the '
territory it serves. The announce-
ment said plans are based on long
range anticipation of adequate gas
supplies for several generations to
come.
More than 2,000 industrial ac-
counts now depend for fuel on Lone
Star Gas Company, its records dis-
close. This indicates an abund-
ance of resources near the com-
pany's lines. For many years the
company's industrial department
has been accumulating information
from experience with these indus-
tries and expects to turn this
knowledge and skill to the benefit
of new industries.
"Our organization is girding
itself for a greater Southwest," ex-
plained D. A. Hulcy, Dallas, presi-
dent of Lone Star. "We feel cer-
tain this territory is on the thres-
hold of a marvelous growth and we
are going to do our share in bring-
ing a substantial portion of desired
industries to this section. Reports
of our geologists and engineers
show that industries can confident-
ly rely on our gas reserves for all
their fuel requirements over a
period that projects itself far into
the future.
"We know, of course, that in
most cases fuel cost does not ex-
ceed five per cent of overall ope-
rating costs. This is the very rea-
son that we plan to invite indus-
tries to our territory because we
are certain all factors necessary
fqc. successful manufacturing will
be here when peace returns.
"For 35 years our company has
been developing gas supplies and
facilities adequate to meet present
and anticipated demands. We were
ready when war came. We will be
ready when war ends and we can
Turn our united energies to devel-
opment of this unequaled terri-
tory."
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Just received, new supply of
typewriter ribbons. Leader office.
Mrs. S. H. Sherman who has
been home for the past three weeks
with an aggravated case of the flu
is now able to be out again.
We are glad to report that Lee
Dennis was able to be moved from
Gorman hospital to the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Hillie McCanlies.
Mrs. Mamie Pratt and Mrs. Ida
Leftwich left Tuesday morning for
Fort Worth, to visit with relatives
a week. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Moseley will stay with Mrs. Mose-
ley's father, Uncle George Parrish,
until Mrs. Pratt returns.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Stephens and
son, Kenneth from Camp Hood,
spent Sunday with his mother at
Throckmorton and with Mr. and
and Mrs. Walter Callahan in Mo-
ran, Other guests in the Callahan
home were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Bildt-rback of Abilene.
Mrs. William Hudman visited
Cpl. and Mrs. T. H. Sherman in
Lubbock last week.
Mrs. Walter Callahan, accom-
panied by Mrs. Frank Bilderback
of Abilene, visited their aunt, Mrs.
Tilda Jordan in the Methodist hos-
pital in Dallas Monday, returning
home Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Isbell oi
Ibex were shopping in Moran Tues-
day.
LeRoy Williams, student of A.
& M. College, spent last week-end
in Moran.
Mrs. A. L. McClendon returned
home from Graham hospital this
week much improved in health.
Mrs. Jack Adams of Houston at-
tended the Bible funeral, and while
here subscribed for the Moran
paper.
Ray Dennis and Cpl. and Mrs.
Newt Odom of Lubbock were in
last Friday and Saturday to attend
the Bills funeral.
TURKEY DINNER NEXT SUN-
DAY, FEBRUARY 18, BILL'S
CAFE, 75 CENTS.
TEXAS STATE GUARD
NEWS, COMPANY C—
MORAN
And again the Second Platoon
leads in attendance, on this 13th
night of February! This time the
count was 20 to 11 over the First
Platoon. But as before stated this
does not necessarily mean that the
contest will soon be won in this
way, as knowledge of general or-
ders and military courtesy will, in
all probability, be the deciding fac-
tors in the current campaign. So
it behooves every man in Company
C to watch himself, and learn to be
a better soldier by applying him-
self and thoroughly memorizing his
general orders and learn all you
can about military courtesy.
Well, tonight is inspection night,
and the attendance is rather light
on account of bad roads and other
programs in which Guardsmen
were a part of, conflicting with
regular drill night. Colonel John
H. Alvis, and Colonel Bryant from
Battalion headquarters were on
hand to inspect Company C. The
Company was formed inside the
armory, and the command, "Open
ranks for inspection," was given.
The questions asked were mostly
on the nomenclature of the rifle.
Other questions asked were per-
taining to the rank of the men, and
what their duties consisted of.
Next in the matter of inspection
was a discussion of First Aid and
demonstration of artificial respira-
tion, also a demonstration of the!
different positions the rifle is fired
from.
After this, the company was
formed outside, and marched down
town to Fisher street, where the
inspectors observed the company
demonstrate the various wedge
formations. Sometime was spent
in practicing wedge formations,
No. 1, No. 2, No. 3. Back at the
armory, rifles were checked in, and
this being the second squad of Sec-
ond Platoons night to police the
hall, brooms were soon put in ac-
tion, and in nothing flat, the place
was spick and span again.
Now just this one thing: Due
to the Army taking so many of the
Guardsmen who were eligible for
Federal Service, there are some
openings for recruits in the ranks,
and men, it is a distinct honor to
belong to the Texas State Guard,
and wear the uniform and realize
I all it stands for. The age limits
! are 16 to 60. Come on and join up
< —you'll be proud you did. And if
you are a member "and not attend-
ing, start right now, and come on
back. Tell Captain McCargo that
you are coming back and be a reg-
I ular attendant. He will appreci-
ate it. Say—do you belong to the
Texas State Guard? Well, come
on buddy, and we'll fix you up. See
you February 20th.
Serving Labor
1 By GEORGE S.BENSON
, President of Harding College
, Searcy.Arkansas
ZEE
PICKED UP
It seems our elerly people in
Texas have at last been re-
j membered by our legislators
and a pension raise may now
be expected.
The House appropriations
j committee has approved an
) increase of $300,000 a month
for old-age assistance. The
average payment now is
$21.40 per month which is
$1.25 less than the amount
for which each recipient is
eligible. The reason given for
this decrease is that there
have not been sufficient-funds
to pay all eligible claims.
An increase in salaries for
rural school teachers has also
been passed by the Legisla-
ture.
Pay raises of $300 each for
the current school year has
been granted and approxi-
mately 15,000 rural teachers
will be benefitted.
The Governor has signed
the bill and it is expected to go
into immediate effect.
SAN FRANCISCO was the first
big city I. ever saw. Young and
interested in everything, I stop-
pe(Lone day to look at a big Ple"
of plate glass being mstai:led
a storefront. - It was the lunch
hour and the workmen were not
busy. As they ate they drank milk
from bottles. When the bottles
were empty, they broke them. lhe
incident gave me a distinct shocK,
and I never forgot it.
£ Back in Oklahoma, 60 miles
from a railroad where I had
learned to walk as well to
plow, every manufactured thing
was deemed to have value. My
mother literally hoarded bottles
for many useful purposes. A
milk bottle would have been
prized in her collection. My
curiosity won a battle with bash-
fulness and I asked the workmen
why they broke the bottles, and
they told me.
Loyalty "YOU SEE, .buddy,"
at Work the foreman explained,
, "we work in glass. So
do the working men who make
the bottles. The more bottles we
break the more work they 'fall
have." Later I learned that this
was a tradition of the industry,
supposedly based on fellowship
and loyalty to Labor. At first I
was confused — loyalty to Labor
seemed quite right to me, de-
structiveness entirely wrong.
• Just recently, Edward T. Chey-
fitz, a member of the National
Reconversion Committee of the
C.I.O., touched on the subject in
as clear and sound an economic
treatise as I ever read. It ap-
peared in the December issue of
Fortune. He called bottle-break-
ing a waste of labor and raw ma-
terial, typical of an old fash-
ioned and wrong attitude toward k
jobs and wages. _ This big labor T
leader said:
Produce "WE MUST educate
Wealth f union membership, to
* * * practice high
productivity. Certainly labor can
not increase its own share of
goods by producing less." He con-
tends that labor and management
must find a common ground if
our nation, as now constituted, is
to survive. He said the survival
of labor unions depends on the
same thing. He is 100% right.
History backs him up. High
production has always helped
labor. In 1899 the average fac-
tory employee toiled 60 hours a
week and earned only $420 a year
because what he produced would
sell for about $1,030. In 1939
the average factory worker put
in only 38 hours a week, turned
out $3,140 worth of merchandise
and earned $1,150 a year. Good
tools made the difference, f
With better equipment,'the
worker produces three times as
much and therefore earns three,
times as much. The formula is!
still good. Greater and more ef-
ficient production will make many
jobs at good pay in the post-war
years. Better equipment can be
provided wherever employers and
employees see eye-to-eye. Mr.
Cheyfitz points to the only hope
in sight for labor or capital
either.
Shore Tire and Rubber Com-
pany of Des Moines, Iowa.
These expansions will boost
military output up by 25 per
cent it is said. * ,
The War Production Board
has announced expansion of
three additional tire plants,
which are said to be badly
needed, and Texas is to get
one of them.
A complete new factory for
output of new tires will be lo-
cated at the site of the Kelly-
Springfield Tire Company at
Houston at a cost of around
$6,000,000.
The other two plants will be
in the form of additions to the
Lee Tire and Rubber Company
of Pennsylvania and the Lake
The OPA has authorized a
sale of men's and women's
shoes, known as odd-lots, be
ginning February 19 and end-
ing March 3. These shoes will
be ration-free.
It is estimated that more
than 4,500,000 pairs of shoes
will be sold during these two
weeks. The price, according
to the report, will be at least
25 per cent below the regular
price.
It is said civilians may ex-
pect to eat more beef this
year and less veal, lamb and
pork.
These estimates were based
on decreased productions and
larger government require-
ments.
Coach (to new player):
"You're great! The way you
hammer the line, dodge,
tackle your man, and worm
through your opponents is
simply marvelous."
New Player (modestly): "I
guess it comes from my early
training, sir. You see, my
mother used to take me shop-
ping with her on bargain
days."
NO LIMIT ON
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Morning, Afternoon and
Sunday Morning
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Phone 161
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INSURE^
jkfWITH WAR BONDS
It's Baby Chick Time
We set eggs each Monday and can take |
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Spring chicks. i
We also buy hatching eggs at
market prices.
| ALBANY FEED & PRODUCE
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SUPPOSE THAT YOU
COULD FLICK A SWITCH
AND GET A SIZZLING STEAK!
Be wonderful, wouldn't i«? Sizzle ... sniff ... m-m-m-m ... a-a-a-ah!
• ^j'V y<?U Say' stea^s are scarce and expensive. Steaks are ra-
tioned. Steaks have gone to war."
That's right—and there are good reasons why.
B'" le" wonderful that you CAN still get electric service
at the flick of a switch—without shortage or rationing—at low pre-
war prices—when vast amounts of electricity have gone to war plants?
Our folks have done their war job so quietly and well it's easy to
take em for granted. We hope you won't—that you'll remember their
ar v,or as you use radio, range refrigerator, washer, cleaner and
other electric servants that make wartime living so much easier.
^'at can ta^e f°r granted is the fact that your friends in this
m any »i provide plenty of low priced electricity to run the
mechanical marvels in your post-war home.
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