The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 14, 1949 Page: 2 of 24
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THE CAMERON HERALD
JULY 14. 1949
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The Agriculture Department re-
ported today 26,380,000 acres of cot-
ton were In cultivation on July 1.
This is an increase of 14.2 per cent
over a year ago.
No forecast or. production was
year’s yield of 311 pounds to the
next month. Rut the crop would be
about 14,770,0(10 bales of 600 pounds
gross weight if the yield per acre
equalled the five-year (1044(48)
average of 200 pounds. At last
year’s yield of 311 pounds to the
acre, the crop would be 16,490,(00
bales.
Production last year was 14,868,000
bales compared with a 10-year aver-
age of 12,014,000 bales.
The acreage planted to cotton last
year was 23,110,000 acres compared
with 22,061,000 for the 10-year aver-
age, The department had set a
planting goal of 21,984,000 acres for
this year’s crop.
The big acreage indicated today’s
report foreshadowed a new cotton
| surplus und a return in I960 to pre-
; war acreage allotments and market-
ing quotas to hold down production.
The acreage planted to American*
Egyptian cotton was put at 6,000
acres compared with 4,000 last year
and 65,200 for the 10-year average.
The acreage of cotton in cultiva-
tion on July 1 by States and the
percentage of last year’s acreage,
respectively, by States included:
Oklahoma, 1„2<»0,000 acres and
112 per cent of last year’s acreage;
Texas, 10,400,000 and 118; New
Mexico, 323,000 and 150.
In anticipation of a big crop this
year, Government agencies are pre-
paring for a possible grower refer-
endum late this year on production
controls or. the 1950 crop.
Controls would include planting
allotments and marketing quotas for
individual growers. They would have
to be approved by at least two-thirds
of the growers voting in a referen-
dum.
Pending in Congress is legislation
designed to bring cotton production
control laws up to date. Laws as they
now stand do not take into account
the sharp increase in the yield of
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cotton per planted acre in recent
years.
Exinting laws do not permit plant-
ing allotments to total less thar.
ubout 27,5oO,OOn acres. It is possible
now to raise enough cotton on about
22,500,000 acres to meet the nation’s
domestic and export needs.
This year’s crop will be supple-
mented by a reserve, or carryover,
of bout 5,600,000 bales from pre-
vious years’ crops. More than half
of this reserve has moved into the
Government’s pool of commodities
removed from the market under
price-support operations. The Govern-
ment’s investment in cotton at this
time is about 4585,000,000.
The Government is supporting
grower prices of 1948 crop cotton at
a national average rate of ubout 30
cents a pound for 15-16-inch middling
cotton, at the farm. The support rate
on the 1949 crop is expected to be
down about a cent a pound, reflect-
ing a decline in the parity price of
cotton.
• The Government is required to sup-
port this year’s crop at 90 per cent
of parity. Parity is a legal standard
for measuring farm prices, design-
ed to be equally fair to farmers and
consumers. Parity prices move up and
down with corresponding changes in
prices of things farmers buy.
R. H. Fisher is visiting his chil-
dren in Waco this week.
Eugene Wunch Has
Narrow Escape From
Electrocution
Eugene Wunch, 17, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bud Wunch, who live or a
farm near Burlington, narrowly es-
caped death by electrocution Thurs-
day, June 30, while flying a model
airplane.
The tiny pane passed through
wires of a power line and the small
wire cable to which it was attached
made contact and Eugene was
caught by the current. So violent
was the voltage that in a matter of
seconds his shoes were burned from
his feet. The small cable was melted
by the wires, releasing him from
the voltage.
Eugene was taken to a Rosebud
hospital where doctors resorted to
artificial resuscitation and after two
hours he was revived. His right hard
will be permanently injured und he
may huve sustained other life time
injuries.
He is a grandson of the late Dan
Lunsford, city marshal in Cameron,
his mother being the former Myrtis
Lunsford.
Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Underwood of
Rogers are the parents of a seven
pound four ounce son born at a loeaJ
hospital July 4, 1949. The baby has
been named, Charles Wayne.
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From where I sit... 61/ Joe Marsh
Windy Sure “Stopped
The Show"!
The other night a bunch of us
were over at Judge Cunningham’s
watching a swell vaudeville pro-
gram on his new television set. It
came in fine, but just once, the
screen got a little streaky.
Before the Judge could touch
the knob to bring it into focus,
old Windy Taylor starts fooling
around with the antenna connec-
tion. “I can fix thut!” he says.
Windy fixed it all right, lie
“stopped the show” for us, and
Buzz Ellis hud to come over and do
a 420 repair job. 1 understand
Windy feels so bad, that he’s pay-
ing the bill and has apologized to
the Judge for acting so smart.
From where I sit, it pays to
practice a little restraint when-
ever we get the urge to meddle.
Whether it’s television or a per-
son’s right to enjoy a temperate
glass of sparkling beer now and
then—let’s get a good clear “pic-
ture” of the real situation-before
we cause more harm than good.
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White, Jefferson B. The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 14, 1949, newspaper, July 14, 1949; Cameron, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth577741/m1/2/?q=Amanda+Montgomery: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lucy Hill Patterson Memorial Library.