The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1933 Page: 2 of 8
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THE NOLAN COUNTY NEWS, SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1933
PLAN TO STAGE
ANNUAL EVENT
REPRESENTATIVES ELECT
OFFICERS AT MEETING
IN SWEETWATER
Organization of a fiYe-
county 4-H Calf Club sale and
allow, planned as an annual
affair along the lines of last
week’s Nolan county event,
I was launched here when rep-
| resentaeves of Nolan, Fisher,
, Scurry, Jones and Mitchell
counties conferred at tha
j Board of City Development
offices.
That the Nolan county show and
■ale, first of which saw 20 head
go at premium prices, may de-
velop into a larger regional event
with an annual auction of 100
Bead or more, was foreseen by
Backers of the movement.
Officers named at the confer-
ence here are J"" Culberson, Ham-
lin, president; ... M. Simmons,
city, vice president; and John
Hendrix, secretary.
The president is to call an early
meeting at which rules and by-
laws will be mapped, a name
■elected, and directors named in
each of the member counties.
It is the plan of the organizers
to conduct 4-H Calf Club move-
ments in each county, with each
to have its own loc^l show.
Animals from each county would
then be shown at a central exhibit
here, followed by auction of the
consignments.
The plan has as its object the
encouragement of farm feeding in
each of the counties. Profitable
advantage of feeding out live-
stock in small quantities on every
farm was strikingly demonstrated
when the 20 calves were sold here
last week at from 6 to 9 cents a
pound, returning each youthful
feeder a nice profit over his feed
costs and expense of handling.
Cash Income This Summer
Afforded By Cotton Plan
Program Ready
For Opening of
Cowboy Reunion
STAMFORD, June 29.—The
detailed program for the three
days of the fourth annual Texas
Cowboy Reunion which opens here
Monday, July 3, was announced
this week.
With the reunion only three days
away, practically all preparations
for the comfort and entertainment
of the cowboys and other visitors
who will attend the gathering
Bave been completed. Reunion of-
ficials are predicting a total atten-
dance of not less than 40,000 for
the three days of the roundup pro-
gram provided weather and roads
■re favorable.
The program follows:
Monday, July 3
9 a. m. to 12 noon—Registra-
tion of Old-Time Cowboys.
10 to 11:45—Meeting of Texas
Cowboy Reunion Association.
10 a. m.—Judging of sponsors,
Ward School grounds.
12 noon—Chuck wagon dinner
for pioneer cowboys.
1 p. m.—Parade.
2:15 p. m.—Grand entry in
rodeo arena, introduction of
judges, presentation of sponsors,
rodeo contests in arena, old-time
cowboys' calf roping contest.
8 p. m.—Rodeo contests in
arena.
10 p. m.—Square dance, Swen-
son Building.
11:30 p. m.—Sponsors’ Ger-
man, Stamford Country Club.
Tuesday, July 4
8 a. m.—Cutting horse contest,
preliminaries.
9 a. m. —Old fiddlers’ contest
at city auditorium.
11:15 a. m.—Chuck wagon din-
ner for pioneer cowboys.
12 noon—Big parade.
2 p. m.—Patriotic exercises in
arena, grand entry, rodeo contests
in arena, old-time cowboys’ calf
roping contest.
10 p. m. Square dance, Swen-
aon Building.
10:30 p. m.—Sponsor’s dance.
Wednesday, July 5
10 a. m.—Meeting of Texas
Cowboy Reunion Association.
12 noon—Chuck wagon dinner
for pioneer cowboys.
1 p. m.—Parade.
4:15 p. m.—Grand entry, rodeo
contests in arena, cutting horse
contest, finals: prizes awarded to
best old-timer cowboy calf ropers,
prizes awarded best cutting horses.
8 p. m.—Rodeo contests in
arena, finals in calf roping and
OASH relief this summer at the
U rate of $6 or more per acre for
land retired from cotton produc-
tion and possible additional pay-
ments later on options on Govern-
ment cotton are in store for Tex-
as cotton farmers if the campaign
for voluntary acreage reduction
under way in every county in the
South this week shows Southern
farmers ready to plow up as much
as 10,000,000 acres, O. B. Martin,
director of the Extension Service
of Texas A. and M. College of
Texas, has been advised by the
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture.
The goal set for Texas is a
minimum of 4,493,000 acres.
In drafting the Extension Serv-
ice to administer the Farm Act,
Secretary Wallace named Mr.
Martin state cotton administrator
and directed county agents to take
charge of the reduction campaigns
in the counties. In furtherance of
these orders county agents this
week are bringing details of the
Government offer to farmers in
practically every cotton growing
community in Texas. They are be-
ing helped in this by vocational
agriculture teachers, farm and
civic leaders, and home demon-
stration agents, Mr. Martin says.
He points out that Secretary
Wallace has stated that a decision
on whether the provisions of the
Act will become operative as to
cotton this year will be made with-
in a week or 10 days after the re-
duction campaign ends this week.
Have Two Choices
The cotton acreage retirement
plan offers the farmer two
choices of benefits in return for
reducing his acreage at least 25
per cent, and not more than 40
per cent By the first plan he
would receive in cash this sum-
mer from $6 per acre to $12 per
acre for every acre retired, the
exact amounl depending on the
yield per ac e. In addition he
would be given an option at 6
cents per pound on as many bales
of Government owned cotton as
the acreage retired would yield at
its ordinary rate. This cotton the
How It Works
An example of how the cot-
ton acreage retirement plans
would apply to an individual
case is outlined by Texas A.
and M. College Extension
Service officials.
Suppose a man has 100
acres planted and growing in
cotton. He chooses Plan No. 1
which gives him an immediate
cash rental to pay him for
his labor and expense up to
the time of plowing up the
cotton, and in addition an op-
tion at 6 cents per pound on
as many bales of Government
cotton as his retired acreage
would ordinarily produce.
Suppose his land is determin-
ed to ordinarily produce one
quarter bale per acre, and
suppose he contracts to retire
30 acres. He would receive a
cash payment of $210 this
summer.
This farmer would also
have an option on 7 1-2 bales
of Government cotton which
would be sold by the Govern-
ment at some future favor-
able time, and the farmer paid
the difference between selling
price and 6 cents per pound.
Suppose this option cotton is
sold at 10 cents per pound,
the farmer would receive 4
cents per pound on 7 1-2
bales or $150. In this case he
would receive a total of $360
for having retired 30 acres
from production.
If the farmer chooses the
second plan in order to get a
larger cash rental he would
be paid, in this same example,
$9 per acre this summer for
the 30 acres he retires from
production, or $270.
Government may sell at sometime
during the year and pay the farm-
er the difference between selling
price and the option price.
By the second plan open to the
farmer he would be paid a straight
cash rental ranging from $7 per
acre to $20 per acre for every acre
retired, exact amount depending
on what the land ordinarily yields.
Payment Schedule
The schedule of payments on
the first plan is based on what the
land retired would ordinarily pro-
duce, as follows: from 100 to
124 pounds lint per ai -e, $6 cash
payment per acre; frim 125 to
149 pounds, $7 per acre; from
150 to 174 pounds, $8 per acre;
from 175 to 224 pounds, $10 per
acre; from 225 to 274 pounds,
$11 per acre; ana land yielding
more than 275 pounds lint per
acre, $12 per acre cash payment.
, Farmers wanting all cash pay-
ment and not desiring to take an
option on Government cotton are
offered a higher scale of cash
rental payments than offered un-
der the first plan. These are Based
on what the land retired would
ordinarily produce, as follows:
from 100 to 124 pounds lint per
acre, $7 in cash per acre; 125 to
149 pounds, $9 per acre; 150 to
174 pounds, $11 per acre; 175 to
224 pounds, $14 per acre; 225 to
274 pounds, $17 per acre; and
yields more than 275 pounds lint
j)er acre the cash payment would
be $20 per acre.
What to Plant
Asked what farmers are expect-
ed to do with cotton land plowed
up and retired from production,
H. H. Williamson, vice-director of
the Extension Service, stated that
this land may be used for any
pasture or cover crop to produce
feed for livestock or to enrich the
soil. “If and when the Farm Act
as applied to cotton becomes oper-
ative,’’ said Mr. Williamson, “Tex-
as farmers will probably find that
late sudan grass crops or cowpeas
may be sown to advantage for
late summer grazing or for turn-
ing under. Probably many farm-
ers will decide to let the land lie
fallow until early fall and then
sow such small grains as oats, rye,
barley or wheat for fall and winter
grazing.”
Here Are Texas Delegates to National 4-H Club Meet
cow milking, junior cowboy riding
contest, prizes awarded to cham-
pion cowboys, prizes awarded to
most typical active cowboys over
55 years and under 55 years.
10 p. m.—Square dance, Swen-
son Building.
Music at arena by Stamford
Firemen’s Band, Dick Rowland',
director.
Panhandle Area
Granted $27,500
For Drouth Aid
He Rode World’s First Rodeo 50 Years Ago
The Texas Rehabilitation and
Relief Commission Monday ap-
propriated an additional $27,500
for drouth relief work in the Tex-
as Panhandle.
Authorization of the eppropria- [
tion of conditions by field repre-!
sentatives. Reports indicated that
conditions were rapidly growing
worse and that relief neeus were I
being increased because of in- j
ability to produce poultry and live-
stock feed.
Up the Main street
of Pecos, Texas, in
1883 Henry Slack,
pictured here, rode
in the world's first
rodeo. He will don
spurs again this year
to participate in the
annual Pecos rodeo,
to be held July 2, 3
and 4. Henry was
known in every cat-
tle camp in the vast
Trans-Pecos section
back in the ’80’s. He
is pictured here on
the courthouse lawn
at Pecos, the very
spot on which the
cowboys raced i n
that historic first
rodeo 50 years ago.
THE TEXAS delegation to the National 4-H club encampment at Washington, D. C., June 15 to 21, in-
cluded (left to right): Mamie Fischer of Burton, Washington county; Morris Williamson of Bryan; Lura
Barton of Lubbock; Herbert Rittiman of Converse, Bexar county, and George E. Adams, district agent of
College Station. The beys and girls representing Texas were chosen from 35,000 Texas 4-H club members
for their ability as farmers and home makers.
Skipper Franklin Roosevelt Goes Down to the Sea
SEA-FARING MEN along the New England coast thrilled to their toes when Skipper-President Franklin
D. Roosevelt pointed the nose of the tiny sloop, Amberjack II, out of Marin Harbor, Mass., on the first
leg of his well-earned vacation, which is to take him for a short stay at the oRosevelt home at Campo
Bello Island, off New Brunswick, Canada. Photos show Skipper Roosevelt at the wheel; the Roosevelt
home at Campo Bello . . . and the Amberjack 11 under full sail in a stiff following wind.
Chuck Wagon to
‘Make’ Stamford
Cowboy Reunion
Lawrence Westbrook, commis-
sion director, said the amounts al-
loted each family would be in-
creased sufficiently to include
feed for animals and poultry.
The amounts authorized by
counties were: Dallam.
7,6C0-Acre Wheat
Farm Goes Under
Hammer Aug. 1st
TULIA, June 29.—More than
7,600 acres of Swisher County
farming land belonging to Hick-
man Price, known two years ago
as one of the world’s largest wheat
$7,500; farmers, will go on the auction
Deaf Smith, $3,000; Hartley, $5,- jHlock Aug. 1, in answer to a suit
000; Hansford, $5,000; Moore, filed against Price.
$2,500; Ochiltree, ,$1,750; Old- ' The plaintiffs are a life insur-
ham, $2,500. lance company and a mortgage in-
vestment company. They seek to
collect money Price obtained to
finance his extensive wheat farm-
ing projects in 1930, 1931 and
1932, in which he attempted to
demonstrate that wheat could be
raised on a scientific basis like
any other enterprise in the busi-
ness world.
Price farmed 12 or more sec-
tions in this and adjoining coun-
ties in his “scientific wheat farm-
ing demonstration” and succeeded
in raising one year nearly 500,-
000 bushels of wheat.
Sweetwater’s old time chuck
wagon will be camped at the Tex-
as Cowboy Reunion at Stamford
when it opens July 3, acording to
Tom L. Hughes, wagon boss of
the Sweetwater Chuck Wagon As-
sociation.
Accompanying it will be a dele-
gation of cattlemen from the
Sweetwater area that will include
several calf ropers, wild cow milk-
ers and other contestants in the
rodeo. Since the Sweetwater Chuck
Wagon made its initial bow to
the public at the Stamford Reun-
ion last year, it has traveled, ac-
cording to a log kept of its activi-
ties, 2,360 miles and has served
chuck wagon fare to upward of 7,-
000 people.
Among the towns and celebra-
tions attended are listed: State
Democratic convention, Lubbock;
Golden Jubilee, Wichita Falls; a
meeting of cattlemen of the Mid-
land area; dedication of the Plains
Historical Museum at Canyon; the
Fat Stock Show, Ft. Worth, and
small gatherings of local nature.
During its travels, the Wagon has
accumulated 100 or more old
time brands, many of which have
been placed on it by the original
owner and in many instances with
original irons.
With the wagon at Stamford
will be representatives of the old-
est cattle families in West Texas.
Among them will be Cap and Auti
Newman, and Burt and Walter
Trammell. Another feature of the
Sweetwater delegation will be W.
D. Wetsel, 74, and his sons, Joe
and George, all of whom will be
entered in the calf roping con-
tests.
The Wagon was guaranteed a
supply of excellent beef when
representatives of the Reunion
attending Nolan County’s 4-H Calf
Club Show last week bid in a 950
pound calf and presented it to the
wagon for its use during the Re-
union.
ORGANIZE HDC
AT WHITE FLAT
OFFICERS CHOSEN AT FIRST
MEETING OF NEWLY OR-
GANIZED CLUB MONDAY
The Future Farmers exhibit at
the 1933 State Fair of Texas will
be made up from products grown
by the 20,000 vocational agricul-
tural students in the 341 Texas
schools teaching this course. Some
2,000 of these students will at-
tend the annual Future Farmers
convention held each year at the
State Fair.
A new Home Demonstration
Club was organized at White Flat
on Monday at the home of Mrs.
M. F. Hand. Eight members were
enrolled including Mrs. M. F.
Hand, Mrs. Ben Quattlebaum, Mrs.
Elizabeth Kimbell, Mrs. Marvin
Freeman, Mrs. Dan Butler, Mrs.
Joe Lowery, Miss Cara Mae Hand,
and Miss Willie Driggers.
The following officers were
elected: Mrs. Alonzo McElmurry,
president; Mrs. Ben Quattlebaum,
vice president; Mrs. Marvin Free-
man, secretary; Miss Willie Drig-
gers, reporter; Mrs. Dan Butler,
council delegate.
The visitors were Mrs. A. J.
Bean, Mrs. Arthur Bean, Mrs.
Claud Rogers and Mrs. Evens.
The next meeting will be at the
home of Mrs. Ben Quattlebaum on
July 10 at 2 o’clock.
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More than 90,000,000 pounds
of meats were canned, cured and
stored in Texas in 1932 for home
consumption. These meats in-
cluded chicken, pork and beef.
A total of 124,707,130 acres of
Texas lands are now under culti-
vation, where almost every kind
of crop known can be found.
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Boyles, C. S., Jr. The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 29, 1933, newspaper, June 29, 1933; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth559051/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.