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The Nolan County News
Serving The Rural Area of Nolan and Surrounding Counties
VOLUME XXVIII
SWEETWATER, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 1952
NUMBER S
Next Good Rain Will Find
Less Water Leaving County
If rains ever come—Nolan and
Fisher Counties and others in this
area will be in position to do more
about holding some of the water
that falls, where it falls without
letting it all run off into the Gulf.
Edor County Boy
Wins Championship
In Ft. Worth Show
FORT WORTH—(IF—One of the
southwest’s most coveted blue rib-
bons went to a 12-year-old Ector
County boy as the first major
championship of the 1952 South-
western Exposition and Fat Stock
Show was awarded.
Joe Willis, the West Texas youth,
entered a 1,000-pound steer which
was chosen grand champion. A I approximately
985-pound Hereford shown by Ed- 1 making the total surface storage
«■ *"«■ ™"»" c~- Kursjasr*•• ■—
ty was adjudged reserve champion.
Both youths are 4-H Club mem-
bers. Their animals were select-
Aside from the fact that the land
is so thirsty it will drink up a great
deal of water there are facilities
built to store some more water.
Holding back the water run-off also
increases infiltration. Land can
take in from a quarter to two
inches of water in an hour depend-
ing on the type of soil.
in the Upper Clear Fork Soil Con-
servation District in parts of Nolan
and Fisher Counties, there are
now about 600 stock ponds, accord-
ing to estimates by Morrison Lis-
ton, conservationist for the Soil
Conservation Service.
“This includes ponds built by
the P. M. A., uy the cooperators
in the district, by joint action,
some privately built ponds, and
everything,” he explained.
These add up to about ',200 acre
feet of water storage with an acre
foot meaning one acre a foot deep.
Spreader dams over the area hold
about 50 acre feet.
The 3,500 miles of terraces hold
9,000 acre feet,
ed from a field of more than 125.
Don Good, assistant professor of
animal husbandry at Kansas State
College, picked the winners as
But these surface storage facili-
ties are just a small part of the
real water holding capacity crea-
ted by new practices. Range con-
servation. better grasses, millions
of plant particles in the soil from
20,000 young farmers were on the
grounds.
Angus Is Tops
At Stock Show
cultivation methods add up to keep
a great deal more water on the
land where it falls.
l.iston said that studies in some
areas show that flood control meth-
ods have proved effective to re-
duce flood damage on major flows
from 5 per cent to as high as 50
per cent. A recent national sur-
FORT WORTH. Jan. 31 UP - Ivey by soil district supervisors
Sleek, fat Gold Strike a 1,045 lb. j showed than conservation meas-
lowa-bred Aberdeen Angus, wore | ures increase yields by 36 per cent,
the top blue ribbon of the 1952
Southwestern Exposition and Fat
s“,rpn»a,™.| Local Area Boys
Grand Champion of the show Mon !»/■ . r. \l//wiL
day nigh, over Jerry, champion W F| 3T N. WOll I
Hereford entry owned by Ector j '
County 4-H Clubber Jto Willis^ Jm- j the Southwestern Exposition
ry was named ,eserve champ °n I and Fat Stock Show boys’ lamb di-
The grand champion was enter- j vjsjon port Worth, winners in- I
ed by W. C. Anderson and son of : ciU(jed;
Fat lambs—Mike Dorn of Colora- '
FEDERAL BUDGET EXPENDITURES BY FUNCTION ‘
MILITARY
SERVICES
INTERNATIONA!
INTEREST
VETERANS
NATURAL
RESOURCES
SOCIAL
WELFARE
TRANSPORTATION,
COMMUNICATION
AGRICULTURE
GENERAL
GOVERNMENT
EDUCATION
HOUSING
COMMERCE,*
LABOR, ETC'
^1951
S85.4
wwy
Expenditures'
Fiscal Years—Billions of Dollars
1952-1953 Estimated
$70.9 $71.
88
TOTAL $62,7
BUDGET
$48.1
$44.6
19511
Receipts
19521 1953
1953 RECEIPTS EXCLUDE
NEW TAX PROPOSALS
Roscoe West
Highway 80
last Word*
The big highway rebuilding job
on U. S. Highway 80 from Roscoe
west to the Mitchell County line
is expected to get underway in a
short time, with the work order
| to the contractor due about Feb.
1, it was learned Saturday.
This immense project, calling for
| 200 work days, will amount to re-
building the highway because it will
be two-lane one-way drives, separ-
ated by 20 feet space in between.
Widening and rebuilding con-
crete culverts will constitute an im-
portant part of the project in Kos-
! coe and on the main road
Del Rio Attonery
Buys Swatter Club
Sweetwater will have a professional baseball team in the
Longhorn League during 1952!
Arthur C. Gonzalez, prominent Del Rio attorney, will take
over the franchise, pay off $7,000 in outstanding debts owed
by the Sweetwater Baseball Association and strive to field
THE best team in the Longhorn circuit at Sweetwater.
Thus, Sweetwater will become a member of the “Gon-
zalez Independent Minor League Baseball System.”
The Del Rio attorney, who owfns Radio Station XERF at
the border city, one of the nation’s most powerful radio net-
works, owns two other baseball clubs in addition to his
newly-acquired Sweetwater holdings.
Gonzalez’ Sherman-Denison club finished third in the
Class B Big State League last season. The Twins’ franchise
has been moved to Greenville, where Gonzalez .plans to
operate tiie Big State team.
At the completion of last season, the Chickasha Chiefs
The general plan is to detour in °f the, ClaSS D So0ner State Lea&Ue Were Purchased by
Roscoe and then out of town use txOnzaiez.
the present highway while the north Dick King, general manager of the Gonzalez Baseball
System, spent Monday in Sweetwater looking over the
city and met with the Swatter board of directors to close
the deal Monday night.
King was very impressed
Here’s how the President’s $85.4 billion budget for fiscal year 1953 breaks down, in comparison
with same breakdown for 1951 and 1952. Outstanding feature of the new budget is, of course,
tremendous r.se in spending for the military ($51.2 billion) and for aid to foreign countries and
other international affairs ($10.8 billion). Note that veterans will get somewhat less in fiscal 1953,
because of reduced spending for readjustment benefits and insurance; however, with armed forces
rapidly expanding, the downward trend is expected to be halted and perhaps reversed in future.
| lane is built. After the north lane
is completed, the old road will be
1 torn up and a new south two-lane
drive built.
| The project will call for 182,000 j
cubic yards of crushed rock for with the professional base-
hase and will be major building ball possibilities of Sweetwa-
j program in Fvery aspect. .
In the meantime, the highway * cant belie\e that VOU
department is preparing its plans; have only 13,000 residents
for improving the Sweetwater to here With such a large bus-
Abilene stretch of Highway 80. J jness district
decided to continue the ticket sale
and set a goal of 400 to reach this
week Fans are urged to make their
ticket pledges as soon as possible.
The tickets will be printed and
sold to the pledge-makers in
March.
“Don’t worry about Gonzalez
Mrs. Julia Baker
Funeral Services
Held Here Monday
Funeral services for Mrs. Julia
A. Walker, 81, who was reared in
this area and spent much of her
A.F.L. Union Is
Winner At Local
Cement Election
I There will be nothing done “about j I“«lr}cl- Commented [hroughout “Rason?” »ld &th
the underpass but several bridges 'Ving. I feel sure that Sweet-! King and Sayies. “He’ll see that
on the Sweetwater end of the road | water fans will support a you f*eld an excellent ball club.”
1 wil be widened. first, division ball club and *
Plans are proceeding for four that’s what wpVp fminrr tn The Sw*N*r board of directors
ts from which to obtain base ma-1 • _,, ^ ^ ; recommended that the Sweetwater
pits iruin which 10 uuiaui uase ma-i ■ tr. »
I terial. The road will be widened tojk,vc <nem.
36 feet all the way and completely Business Manager
I resurfaced. I King stated that A1 Echols,
Underpass
Highway engineers are at work
West Liberty, la. Anderson said
he’bought the big steer last Sep-
tember at the Clinton County, la.,
fair. It was bred by Wayne Nolt-
ing of Preston, la.
Willis, short and stocky, was the
crowd's favorite. His entry won
the junior championship, then took
top honors in the Hereford class
before going down before Gold
Strike. It was the young farmer's
first trip to the fat stock show.
Judge Don Good chose Gold
Strike in the final round over Jer-
ry and Commander, a shorthorn
entered by Jim Messerschmidt, 4-H
Club boy from Elizabeth, Colo.
Gold Strike took the Angus cham-
pionship over a steer owned by
Closing Dam
At Lake Will
Begin Soon
City Rushing Work
—Decide City Must
Go Ahead At Once i Ame.^ VuTTter." m j d,f,,cult . „ I the Associated Press.
Closing of Oak Creek Reservotr . Mr > V. . vM.-s wi-h voting one J* ^ ‘h* The boa.d ot directors
Sweetwater “Braves”
team’s name be changed from
“Swatters" to “Braves". King
heartily agreed.
The franchise and all physical as-
40, Will arrive here within a sets of the club will go to Gonzalez
United Cement, Lime and Gyp-j on plans for the Lamar Street un-1 few. daYs and take over the j^J^e efub^rerts
U’iih Vlrwt
A.F.L.. was ruled winner in an | nuer!!’?..p.arty,_was. hf,re Jas^,we.t;k 1 Gonzalez - owned Sweetwater
Workers International Union, derpass here and a Santa Fe engi- business management of the ^ith King
ruled winner in an naerl.ie party was here last week Gonzalez - owned Sweetwater S “It will be up to our manager—
the Lone Star Cement i I dub. ! whom we hop/ to name E£S*~
Echols, married and the | 1° decide on whether any of the old
election at tne uone star cement j er details. This big project will re-
married life here, were held at 4 Plant Friday, according to the re-1 quire some time yet for comple-
p. m. Monday r‘-,~ c-——1 “— — ■------ - —
! Swatters will return to the Sweet-
,.. , ... _at C^te-Speneer port of LeWis A Ward, National I «on Plans because the Texas & 1 father of two da Ighters, is i water club .. sald Klne
Chapel with the Rev. Gilbert Callo- . . iPacifc, the Santa Fe, the state! nresentlv the nuhhe i-aLtinne If :f ’ , lun?.
• ay, pastor of the First BaptUt ILabor Relations Boards represen- j hlghwav deDartment a’nd thp pjtv, Presently tile public relations JThe three clubs - Sweetwater,
Church at Trent, officiating
tutive. are all involved All parties must director of the Gonzalez Chieasha and Greenville tor Sher-
Mrs. Walker died Sunday after- rhe was folT L correlate their engineering needs Baseball Interests. Last Vear ?Ja,nn“Twl1 hoid sprln* training at
noon in Brownwood. she had tailed [;n‘°n apd ;[ into the master plan of this big he was a baseball writer for Ri_l_
| Brownwood home for about 20 an(* Allied Products Workers of an(j difficult project.
*££•«*; 'Freddie' MwCrt Idam U* IJe ready lo <'"U’u m,y * Kiir-v S,.. who now Uve. at U00 votfe against participating in labor * !d-Mlrch°/nri wo/k Swee'iw an’r “ Baseb^r Association
of Robv. sixth: David Thomas j the hoped for winter rains is set Lubbock and formerly lived at 711 organization on the whole program will be push were highly enthused with King’s
Bridgford of Colorado City, sev- for an early date, city officials said : w<-st F’lfth. Bobb Hum !e. ton genera! rep- (.d However it may be some offer
*"«>• Saturday. I. J* month, before the whole project
In the hovs’ steer show in’steers I-------” ’ . . came to Fisher County trom Fast saio mai a meeting nas Deen cauea ; lin(lpru.av pncinppr‘K „rp I Als0 attending the meeting Mon-
welghing under 825 pounds. Billy The cit>’ commission inspected Texas as a girl Her family lived for Friday night. Feb. 1, to elect dic( K p e day mght in the Rose^Room of the
placed fourth.
gram last week and agreed that band, 11 A. Walker,
I , ,, , . . , , vester in 1925.
[the city will be forced to go ahead
Bruce Bridgford of Colorado City j the reservoir’s far-flung work pro- near ltotan and Sylvester. Her hus- officers and committees of Local
i.----1 .. . — died at Syl- 323 to start negotiations for a con-
i tract.
Surviving are three daughters, i In the electrical workers’ elec-,
j with closing the dam even though j Mrs. Kinsey of Sweetwater. Mrs. tion. all nine of the eligible work-
[the highway bridge may be delayed J Leola Bynum and Mrs. Jesse Rich- ers voted for the International Bro-
ardson of Brownwood. a brother, therhood of Electrical W'orkers,
who had petitioned for an election.
Jackie While Ci
Blackwell Dies
From Pneumonia
Mason Wins Girls
Cage Meet At Roby
fo ., ’ . . | Jess Baker of Stephenville.
| It is considered highly improb-1 sixteen grandchildren include
j able that rains heavy enough to | the following who live in this area:
nnnv i»„ High raise the water level up to the Mrs. Othel Barnhill of Trent; Mrs.
School won the championship of highway bridge could come. J^e bS and Mrs I^wis Kin-
Oklahoma A & M College Ander- 1 the Roby Girls Invitational Basket- j If such a seldom-experienced sey of E-kota, Fate Kinsey, Emma-
son said his champion, bought in hall Tournament Saturday night by Rood should come quickly, of ; jean and Bobby Bynum of Swectua-
September when he was one year ; defeating Hawley, 49 to 34. course highway traffic would havej*er- There are 13 grcat-childien-
°,ld' „H8S«hilldSirnrnth™il/dmoat0sn A/oca copped third Place laur- to be detoured. The city feels that f'Iti"rial wag in Sweetwater
rooked barlev linseed meal, wheat I els with a 29 to 24 victory over j it must go ahead and be prepar- Cemetery w ith Cate-Spencer Fun-
spur and Noodle won the consola- ^d to catch any rain that does i eral Home officiating,
tion prize by downing Aspermont. come. - --
43 to 41 Finish Bottom Work StOlie Well DOWIl
Betty Galloway of Aspermont In the meantime work is moving 5640 feCf
Hylton Outpost
Has Oil, Water
11 Oil Rigs
In This Area
By Mrs. Chas. Ragsdale
BLACKWELL—Jackie White, 9,
son of Mrs. Jay White, died in
Bil'ie Hanks Is
Visitor Monday
Billie Hanks, San Angelo busi-
ness man and rancher on whose
place six miles north of Blackwell
the two biggest oil producers in
this area recently were brought
in, was a visitor here Monday
with friends.
A new Continental Oil try to ex-
tend the field north is being start-
ed and is the center of much inter-
est Hanks also is watching in
developments in the reef strike at
Claytonville, friends’said.
Sun Oil Co. No. 5 Beatrice K
| Blue Bonnet was Hal Sayies, Long-
I horn League president.
"You can rest assured that
I Sweetwater will be one of the |
! stronger clubs in the league with a | Bronte Hospital Tuesday night
(man like Gonzalez at the helm,” from pneumonia at 8 o’clock.
[said Sayies. Jackie, who was in the third
Praises Swatter Fans | f^era/da^s11^ ***" ^ f°r
The Longhorn president praised | ^Funeral* services were set for 4
the Sweetwater fans for standing, p m. Wednesday at the Baptist
[ behind their teams during the past Church here with services to be
With 11 oil rigs drilling in this four years despite a chronic loser conducted by the Rev. R. B. Mur-
immediate area, oil interest is run- ' “This is the most remarkable ray of Colorado City, assisted by
„„ ’ „ . ___. . basebali town in organized base- the local pastor, the Rev. R L.
Continental No 2-111 Mrs I lovd "8 h'gh * * k * ball,” reported Sayies. “You'll be Cooksey.
„ „ , ‘ ‘ ' . . confirm three big recent strikes doing a great thing by accepting Burial was to be here beside
Eaiuood. east offset to Seaboard and potnt out the direction of fu- King's offer in the interest of Mr Jackie's father. Jay White, World
No 1 Bilie Hanks, opener of the (ure extention Gonzalez." War I veteran.
Hylton iStrawn) field six miles ,, .... . . D , About Sweetwater’s advance Survivors are his mother: a
north and cast from Blackwell re- **' ! * alK 3 * ° ' ticket sale. King said: brother. Jay White who is a local
cnvi.rPd m fn.t nf l,-nr nil too f0unty seat’ thin8s are lively. Ab- “I understand you're trying to high school student, and a sister,
,pp. nf ,.u .......... nn .. drillstpin stractor Bill Hobson is having sell 715 70-game book tickets. How- Miss Elsie White, who Is employed
test from 5,502-12 feet. The tool some busy times and at Clayton- ’ yoa have *old °nJ-v.aboat 230 by the Southwestern Bell Tele-
—'•5..opcP .S° l.ou»- G„ surfaced jvilie. ,. „ » s,„„ „ tt, JJf J5S5* fi? .‘bi. S J?Cmmjnnmtnur.
DrillinR continui’d .1 S« H 1. .2 9*1 ““ *" ri«h' I J[>'™ » «*» ■»».
was high-pointer in the tournament < fast with large crews on the job
with 102 tallies in four games. Her completing the railroad and high-
closest rival in the score-making way embankments. The Santa Fe Stone, south and west of the Fca- lime'ancf shale"1*' “ ^ **,ory after ,he can>'on reef strike with us
department had 68 points. riiiroad has its own crews now therstone field, was drilling Mon- location is C NW SW 211-64- on tbe Mrs. G. T Webb place at
Four forwards and four guards tn the north end of the job laying day at 5,640 feet in shale with no H&TC. about 5.650 feet.
ties and rails and starting on bal- oil shows thus far. Reef in other Water wells were being drilled General Crude’s No 2 Webb
sjr’AiJS.Jss b“° — sj“;s
el blanket and rip-rap. Gravel This is wildcat territory, the j iy as an important test seeking to wan an(I Hope s No 1 Peters north
blanket and rip-rap are being pul fifth Stone well by Sun, and holds determine the trend of the import- offset is at 3975. Sun’s newly spud-
Among those from here in the
400 Ticket Goal | Bronte Hospital are Mrs Joe Da-
The Sweetwater board of directors vis and Charles Copeland
W'ere selected on the “all tourna-
ment” team, acocrding to Mrs.
Lena Huey, Roby High School Girls
coach, who was director of the
tourney.
The all-star players:
FORWARDS-Betty Galloway of
Aspermont. Shirley Shelton of A\o-
ca, Charlotte Faulks of Hawley and
Carolvn Meyer of Mason.
GUARDS — Wanda Cunningham
of Spur. Sue Okin of Avoca, Peggy
Schwartz of Mason and Joan Black
of Hawley.
Backward Glances....
This Comer Is Reserved For Nolan County As It Used To pe
on the highwav embankment.
It has been decided that all work
at the bottom of the two bridge
embankments must be finished now
so that the dam can be closed,
leaving the top part to be finished
later.
Probably within a week heavy
machinery will be put to work dig-
ging out the core trench and tierne
the dam into thp side of the bluff
and finishing up the closing of
the big dam.
Intake Tower
Finishing touches are being put
on the 70 foot-two inch concrete
intake tower on the north side of
Oak Creek about a half milp from
the highway. Fngin^ers and the
city both said that the contractor.
C. C. Johnston, has turned out an
exceptionally good job on this
structure. It will be reached at
the top by a runway from the
north embankment on the lake-
shore. Atop the concrete cylindri-
cal tower will be a 20 by 20 foot
tile and concrete pump house
its floors extending out
much interest.
Thinkin Phi osopher
ant new Billy Hanks field.
20 Years Ago In Nolan County , in February.
The fight to keep Highway 80 Machinery was set up for reg-
routed through Sweetwater con- istering men between 20 and 44 for
tinned to gain heat, with Abilene the draft . . . Mrs. Verne Dalton,
as the opposition. j who, as Viarena Stinson, had been
Funeral was held at Slater's | Nolan County HD agent, was
Chapel for J. R. Loy . . . Another ; gravely ill . . . Mrs. E. H. Carpen-
wage slice loomed for county em- ! ter died.
ployees ... j Mr- 2nd Mrs- Henry Reitman
The West Texas Historical So- j had measles . . . Mrs. H. W.
ciety, headed by Judge R. C. Broughton was new president of
Crane was to hold its spring meet- ! the Music Club.
ing here . The father of Mrs. : Five Years Ago In Nolan County [ building
A Corbet died in Ennis . . . j Bids were due on the hospital j over the sides of tower
Bill Snell entertained with a Mex- addition . Ellen Kendrick, 3. The pump house will contain
ican supper for his friends . . . ! daughter of the Alvin Kendricks, a 250 horse power electrical motor
Permanent waves were advortis* ! was burned in an explosion which I capable of bringing out 4.000.000
ed on special for $1. occurred while the Kendricks were gallons of water a day. Two boos-
Mrs Hollv Toler was Mariposa moving into their new ranch home [ter pumps along the line will raise
hostess Rita Brashear was Millard I-each celebrated his | the water up over the Callahan
hostess to the Bridgettcs . . . Baby fifth birthday . . . Nine hostesses I divide at 69 Ranch, a rise of about
beef roast was advertised at 10 entertained with a gift party for 500 feet. From these the water from
cents a pound. | Miss Patsy Mercer, bride-elect of J the 21-inch main will flow by grav-
_ 'Jimmy Mayfield . . The J. M.jity into Lake Trammell and from
10 Years Ago in Nolan County Shades moved to Bryson the lake to the city.
Two Camp Barkeley soldiers Billy Martin and wife attended The intake tower will be at the
were killed when their car ram a sign convention in Chicago deepest part of the lake except
med a post on the T * P overpass Sparky Eberle got his degree at for the actual creek bed and will
east of Sweetwater . . . The Ro- A & M Women of the county be about 40 feet in the water
tary Club's second Institute of In- raised $80 for the March of Dimes There will be intakes at three dif-
lernational Relations was to open at a silver tea. [ferent levels.
MILLIONS OF PERSONS
9
Non Euioptoa
Editor’s note: The Thinkin’ Phi-
losopher on his Johnson grass farm
on the divide is tackling a big
problem this week, his letter re-
ded in Mrs. W. A. Peters north
J offset is below 2000 feet.
Rowan and Hope
Between Sweetwater and Ros-
j coe. Rowan and Hope’s No. 1 Ne- veflh>.
mir south offset is at 5,215 shoot- editar
ing at the Rowan and Hope No. 1 ! A north wind which was sandwich
Seago reef strike which had a ed in between two south winds ____________________
total depth of 6495 turned^ up a ^newspaper^out here government crop estimate
0 your cotton for 34 cents a
and a month or two later see
1 >ody else who never touched
ultivator in his life sell it for
cents, a gain of nearly $50 a
ie. Most farmers I know, in-
:udin myself, had just as soon
ave that $50 themselves.
At any rate. Congress wants
some advice on how to make the
more
Honolulu Oil’s No. 1 Wallace, yp'dfrdaiy. a?,pr,l?eJjut, '/l? nf'r-r- iccu^'e- »nd *»!«• I don't have
west offset is setting surface cas- shot of my wife and her constant walYbZ glad’V'oblige^"* m°rmn 1
*W. [proposals for improvin this place | i, s easy t0 make the crop csti-
1851- 1*61- 1*71- 1881 1891- 1901- 1911- 1921- 1931- 1941-
<37 I860 1*70 1880 1890 1900 19’0 1920 1930 1940 1950
BOWLES WANTS MORE IMMIGRANTS—Chester Bowles, U S.
ambassadoi to India, wants our present restrictive immigraUon
laws re-jiggered to admit about 50 per cent more foreigners to the
U. S. He also would scrap present “discriminatory’' provisions,
placing all applicants on an equal basis in regard to race, religion
and nationality. Newschart above shows the number of immigrants
admitted and their natural origin since 1850. Immigration was
unrestricted until 1921, when a limit of 350,000 a year was set.
,In 1924, this quota was halved. The law was modified in 1929,
but still forms the basis of our immigration policy.
The new Canyon reef field west ,tt,blcb sults me
l,o . _ • , j, 1 like it is was an
of Sweetwater airport, including articie savin )he
the Roscoe city dump grounds, and House Agricul-
started by the Row an and Hope lure Committee
No. 1 Seago has been officially des- : in Washington is
ignated as the Row an and Hope
: Strawn Reef field. Discovery al-
j lowables were granted by the rail-
I road commission Tuesday
South of Sweetwater. No. 5 Bea-
[ trice K Stone was drilling at 5805
! Hunting the reef. No. 3 Feather-
1 stone of Sun is about to be aband-
' oned after some reports.
Billie Hanks
wantin some ad-
vice on how the
Agriculture D e-
partment can___
forecast the annual cotton' crop
little more accurately
mate come out correct. All you
have to do is first find out what the
weather is gonna do, how much it's
gonna rain and when, don't need no
rains at pickin time, how much hail
we gonna have, what the insects
bre gonna do, which way the wind
is gonna blow your poison, and
then get an accurate estimate of
how hard farmers are gonna work,
a ] how many tractors are gonna
break down in the plantin season.
As I understand it. the Depart- in the cultivatln season, etc., how
ment guessed wrong on cotton pro- many flat tires there'll be avail-
duction last year with the farmer, able, bow much each acre ought
as usual, takin a beatin The De- to produce on every single farm in
partment started out in August es- the South, and the rest ought to
The Billie Hanks field is testing Hm.tin. rmn nf it .1muT alii
. P , 0 ■ timaun a crop of 1< million bales come out easy.
the east offset Earuood and Con- !hen ralsecj jt t0 jg million in Sep- Believe if I had all this informa-
tmental is getting under way with tember In September of course a tion 1 could do it myall but untU
3 T w u-„tr> “Verhal m"eS of farmer, arc sellin cotton, and it is available Htimates Ire
north on the ^anc*J- rhis forecast of a big crop caused liable to mist, and the only way
A new rig; of the latest type has prjces to drop As , matter o{ fact , know ,0 ofJ^t the Jo^s farr/ers
Kf V.ake-rTra™inr1 ^ ne!5 If.!! !hat in far T**” wa* "Old to under estimate it this vear. so
by Mar-Tex Oil Co. is being drilled the estimate dropped oack to 15 *
! by Continental Drilling Co. ; million
and as you know the price
This location is near the site of of cotton then w-ent up to 43 cents
the test made many years ago [ or more
[ with reported oil show ings, old- j Thi
[timers say.
| played havoc with a lot of
> farmers, as it ain’t no easy thing
we can recoup our losses. This
might require a law requirin the
stock market to react correctly,
but I’m in favor of that too
Yours faithfully,
J A.
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The Nolan County News (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 5, Ed. 1 Monday, January 21, 1952, newspaper, January 21, 1952; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth560331/m1/1/?q=music: 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.