The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 101, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1936 Page: 6 of 8
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THE SHAMROCK TEXAN, Shamrock, Texas
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Cotton Picker Gets Its First Public Tryout
Efficiency ol the Rust cotton-picking machine, which may revolutionize agricultural methods in the
south, was shown at the first public demonstration, given at the Delta experimental station at
StoneviUe, Miss Here the machine ts shown as it unloaded its harvest into a wagon, after a run
through the field, covering a 1000-foot row in less than four minutes. The cotton, blown from the
conveying oipe into the huge bag, came out whole and clean, and observers were highly impressed
with the test
‘SLO-O-O-OP!’
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Says A Minnow: And Another Wiggle-Tail
Won’t Grow Up To Be A Mosquito
WASHINGTON — Minnows like
nothing better than a good meal of
wiggle-tails. And thereby hangs a
tale of international good will that
should make the state department
jealous.
Wiggle-tails are adolescent mos-
quitoes; just after they leave the
eggs and just before they sprout
wings. So obviously, every time a
minnow stops for lunch he saves
human being that many bites, and
maybe, that many cases of malaria
and yellow fever.
On a good day a minnow can
consume a hundred wiggle-tails. He
goes after them something like a
spaghetti-devotee goes after spa-
ghetti: “Slo-o-o-op!” and another
waggle-tail wiggles no more.
Thus the minnow is a joy to pub-
lic health departments. He is “plant-
ed" in shallow, sluggish waters over
which mosquitoes buzz on summer
nights.
Not All Minnows Useful
However, not all minnows are so
useful. Some are vegetarians, and
pass up wiggle-tails. It’s only the
"Gambusia" specia, from southeast-
ern states, that is sure death to the
mosquito.
He revealed his eating habits to
Dr. S. F. Hildebrand, of the federal
bureau'of fisheries, way back in 1914,
when Dr. Hildebrand was stationed
at Beaufort, N. C.
Dr, Hildebrand kept minnows in a
tank of water. He spread some on
the scum-like colonies of eggs which
mosquitoes deposit on the surface of
1 the water. When the eggs burst they I
turned into creatures that look like
tiny sections of a watch-chain with
a whisker-like fuzz at one end.
That’s a wiggle-tail.
It hangs head-down from the sur-
face of the water, breathing through
its tail. Then up darts a minnow
from the water below. “Slo-o-op!”
and a whole flock of wiggle-tails are
gone.
The news about these Gambusia
was bruited about when the World
war broke and Dr. Hildebrand was
asked to clean up mosquito ponds
around large army camps in this
country. He did.
Italy Was Jubilant
Slowly, the information spread.
Italy wrote for help, and four years
later expressed jubilant praise of the
minnow. Since then he’s been “in-
troduced” to Portugal, Palestine, the
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Philippines, Mexico, Puerto Rico i
Argentina.
Dr. Hildebrand sends off tanks ofl
the fish and grins because they]
probably arrive doubled in number.]
A female minnow gives birth to i
many as 200 young at once. And si
repeats five to six times each ^umjj
mer. ]
There is one drawback. GambuslJ
doesn’t like cold climates. He ha
managed to struggle through thel
winter in southern Illinois and In-1
diana, but that was in ponds fed by I
warm springs. Now Dr. Hildebrand!
is looking' for a northern fish thatl
also has a tooth for wiggle-tails.
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Alligators often go a month or1
more without food.
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Tax Rebel Signs Tnice
After 30-Year Battle
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—Memphis’ “mil-
lionaire pauper" has lost his title.
No longer is Tom Collier either a
millionaire or a pauper.
Of the Collier family’s original
950-acre tract in the heart of Mem-
phis' exclusive residential suburbs
which he was unable to sell or de-
velop because it was encumbered
with tax claims:
Collier, his mothelr, Mjrs. Alice
Trezevant Collier, and a brother and
Bister retain clear title to 80 acres,
their old home and a few other piec-
es of real estate, the total worth
some $250,000.
City, County Get 200 Acres
Memphis and Shelby county get
more than 200 acres, mostly unde-
veloped, in settlement of claims for
taxes, penalties, interest and attor-
Bey’s fees amounting to $750,000.
And Tennessee will receive from
the city and county a cash settle-
ment for its $19,000 tax claim against
the Collier property.
With this agreement ends the 30-
year battle “Fighting 'Tom” Collier,
“champion of lost causes,” has wag-
ed almost single-handed against the
city, county and state to balk col-
lection of taxes he charged were ex-
orbitant and unfairly assessed.
Collier started his fight in 1906.
Since then he has filed and fought
out hundreds of tax suits. Most of
his victories have been in the state
supreme court; his defeats in the
county courts.
Black Tie For Red
Twice he has stood on the court-
house steps, flaunting a flaming red
tie as a battle banner, and watched
his property auctioned. Both times
he regained control of it through su-
preme court reversals.
A short time age he called a truce.
Substituting a somber black tie for
his red one, he "talked turkey” with
the city.
Fifty-nine years old, Collier still-
holds to a life-long habit of running
and legal foes, which often landed j
him in jail.
“Well, I got a 25-cent dinner out j
of the city—that’s more than they
have gotten out of me in 25 years
of trying,” he said after one of his
trips to jail.
Another time he threatened to an-
nounce his candidacy for the mayor-
ship from behind the bars.
"I’ll announce as the people’s jail-
bird candidate,” he asserted.
In 1903 the Collier family gave
Memphis a beautiful section of East
Parkway for a pleasure drive. Later,
when it was made a state highway,
Collier became indignant.
Only the police prevented his
fencing the section and plowing it
up for a corn field.
Talked To Pictures .
Once he proposed to establish a
city within a city on his East Park-
way estate. He would have been
mayor with two dummy commission-
ers. City officials blocked this plan.
When his, “pet peeve,” the city
commission, objected to his reading ;
a petition before them, he disregard- |
od the order and vead so loudly and
long the mayor called adjournment.
Collier continued to read, address
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en physical encounters with political! walls.
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Why Gulf is the gas
for your Labor Day trip
I HOBBY BOOMS INTO BUSINESS
WASHINGTON, Ind. — G. O. |
Vance, railroad engineer, started
raising gladiola plants as a hobby
several years ago and the hobby
grew so that now he hires several
men to help care for 50,000 plants
he is producing on his farm near
i here.
T7EW car owners realize how easily an otherwise
imperfect Labor Day trip can be spoiled by tire
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PACK A PICNIC BASKET, get in
your car, and go places over
summer’s last big week-end;
But be sure you use a gas spe-
cially refined for current weather
in this locality. Otherwise part
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the exhaust unbumed, wasted.
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“Wait till 1 get an American
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hats,” Mrs. Grace Coolidge,
widow of the late President
Coolidge, pleaded as she faced
cameramen on her return to
New York from a six-month
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Bones, Percy. The Shamrock Texan (Shamrock, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 101, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 3, 1936, newspaper, September 3, 1936; Shamrock, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth525610/m1/6/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shamrock Public Library.