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AUGUST 12, 1949
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THE WEST! NEWS
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TAH)OKY PARTY
The Sunday night Taroky Club
met with Mr. and Mrs. Frank
■ t’rlkryl. Refreshments of chop-
* ped ham sandwiches, cream
cheese, congealed salad, pickles,
cookies and limeade were served.
Mrs. A. Berger won high score
4 and Mrs. Frank Prlkryl won low.
Others present were Mr. and
Mrs. Rud. Janek, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Selth, A. Berger and Fr.
Prlkryl,
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SOUTHWEST FARMr MARKETS
•KCUi^AWIMMmaAiMMmiATlOH mo*
(USDA)—Southwest farm pro-
ducts brought unevenly higher
to lower prices compared to a
week ago, the U. 8. Department
of Agriculture’s Production and
Marketing Administration re-
ports. /
AUTO AND TRACTOR RADIA-
TOR REPAIR SHOP
Will be opened in
WEST
in very near future
We will do cleaning, re-coring or
furnish new radiators
Watch this newspaper for an-
nouncement of our location
G. L. Callahan
WEST, TEXAS
Eggs held unchanged for the
week at north Texas markets,
but advanced a cent or two at
Denver and New Orleans. Prices
of spring chickens increased one
or two cents at most southwest
markets, and other poultry re-
mained firm.
Potatoes and cauliflower weak-
ened slightly at Colorado ship-
ping points, but peas recovered
from last week’s slump as de-
mand Improved. At Denver,
cantaloups, cherries, peaches,
spinach, and tomatoes sold low-
er than a week ago. Also lower
were Texas watermelons and
potatoes and Texas and Louis-
iana sweet potatoes.
Barley rose 4 to 5 cents a
bushel for the week, milo 3 cents
a hundred, and wheat a cent a
bushel. Yellow corn lost 5*/2
cents, as other grains showed
little change. No. 1 hard wheat
closed Monday at $2.18% to $2.25
per bushel In bulk carlots at
Texas common points. No. 2 yel-
low mllo ranged from $2,15 to
$2.22 a hundred.
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beforehand or after-
holds its lovely Roses-
and-Spice fragrance to the
last drop.
You’ll Favor
Our Flavors
Chocolate and vanilla that
taste bean-fresh: berry and
fruit syrups with whole
berries and chunks of fruit
right in them to delight
your palate: mint tangy as
the crushed leaf — what’s
your choice for s o d a or
sundae — lusciously good
with genrrous scoops of
our wonderful Ice cream.
Yes, it’s Swift finest Ice
Cream.
Fine Gifts for
Everyone
We carry a complete lint of
gifts for every occasion
Men’s, Ladies, Wedding,
Showers and etc.
Also a complete line of
cosmetics, perfumes and
gifts sets.
Max Factor, Early Ameri-
can, Desert Flower, Old
Spice Jergens, Woodbury,
Evening in Paris, Coty and
others.
Also a complete line of
cards for every occasion
lallcy cards. By Hallmark.
Corner Drug Store
Wcndel Montgomery, Prop
WEST, TEXAS
First sales of new crop rice
this season ranged from $3.50
to $4.75 a barrel lower than open-
ing prices last year. Feed mar-
kets showed strong trends last
week, except for weakness on
wheat millfeeds. Alfalfa hay
markets dlsolayed a firm tone,
but prairie hay weakened. Light
peanut harvesting continued in
south Texas, as support price
of around $204 a ton was an-
nounced.
Wool trading remained slow,
but mohair buying picked up
last week. Prices advanced 2
cents a pound to reach 40 cents
for adult mohair and 60 cents
for kid.
Dressed meats turned toward
higher values for the week ex-
cept the lower grades of beef
and ypal. Slow to fair onening
trade Monday found most buyers
cautions.
Last week’s southwest livestock
receipts changed little from the
week before.
Cattle and calves lost $1 to $2
for the week at Houston, but
sold mostly steady to strong at
other southwest markets. Fairly
active markets Monday contin-
ued steady to strong trends. Beef
cows ranged from $13 to $16 at
Houston, $14 to $16 at San
Antonio, $13.50 to $15 at Fort
Worth, and $14 to $17.50 at
Denver.
Butcher hogs gained mostly 25
to 50 cents for the week and
sows 50 cents to $1. Feeder pigs
held unchanged In Texas, and
stock pigs advanced 50 cents in
Oklahoma. Top butchers brought
$22 to $22.75 Monday in Texas
and Oklahoma and $24 at Den-
ver.
Sheep and lambs declined 50
cents to $1 at Fort Worth but
gained an equal amount at
Oklahoma City. Top spring lambs
brought $23 Monday . at both
markets. Ewes held steady at
Denver and San Antonio. Goats
changed little but kids declined.
Cotton ranged from 25 cents to
$1.75 a bale lower for the week.
Dallas fell the full 35 points to
close Monday at 30.30 cents a
pound for middling 15-16 inch.
Houston paid 3085, Galveston
30.90, and New Orleans 31.05.
The Constitution of the United
States makes no mention of a
President’s Cabinet.
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X before the license number
of an airplane denotes that the
plane is licensed for experi-
mental purposes.
Experiments in flying were
carried on by the Wright Bro-
thers at Kitty Hawk, N. C’„ be-
cause winds there are steadiest
and strongest of anyplace In the
United States.
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Yes, folks, the hottest part of summer is still ahead! The mercury will likely
hover around those blistering 100’s for many weeks to come. But you needn’t
be uncomfortable about it. Brow-mopping is definitely old-fashioned these
days •.. for there’s an easy and inexpensive way to take a vacation from
the heat. Just go to your nearest electrical appliance dealer.., look over
his stock of coolers and fans .., and make your choice! It’s as simple as that!
Whether you select an evaporative room
cooler, attic ventilation or a portable fan,
you’ll find amazingly modest prices. No
longer a chore, summer-living is a pleat-
uni Take full advantage of dependable,
low-cost electric service... go electric
all the wayl
TEXAS ROW IR A LIGHT COMPANY
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County Planning
To Honor Early
Quinine Sponsor
ARROW ROCK, MO.—Belated*
honor to the memory of an obscure
country physician whose courage
and learning made possible the
opening of much of the nation’s
frontier is being sought by the
D.A.R. of Arrow Rock, Mo.
The doctor is John Sappington,
who introduced quinine over the
bitter opposition of fellow physi-
cians, to defeat the malaria which
in areas like Pike county, 111.,
wiped out as much as 80 per cent
of the pioneer immigrants in one
year.
The D.A.R., through its com-
mittee chairman, Miss Mary Tur-
ley and Mrs. B. M. Lanham, is
seeking the aid of Missouri physi-
cians and others to er#ct a state
memorial shrine to the doctor.
Learned of Quinine
Distressed by the malaria, which
125 years ago threatened to halt
settlements of all the Mississippi
valley, Dr. Sappington searched
the world’s medical literature for
latest developments in treating the
disease. Thus he was umong the
first to learn of it when two youth-
ful French pharmacists isolated
quinine from cinchona bark in
Paris in 1820. Three, years later,
when manufacture of quinine was
begun in Philadelphia, Dr. Sapping-
ton obtained a supply and after
use on his patients knew he had
the remedy he had sought so long.
Accordingly, Sappington’s son
was sent east for 100 ounces and
through error, came back with 100
pounds. As other physicians ridi-
culed the treatment, and the doctor
could not use such quantities in his
practice, he took the bold step of
opening a factory to make anti-
fever pills. Soon the magic of the
remedy become so well known that
bells were rung at eventide in many
a pioneer village to remind people
to take the pills.
' Published Book
When the business was at its
height, Dr. Sappington published a
book on fevers in which he revealed
that quinine was the active ingred-
ient in his magic pills. He advised
readers to buy quinine at their
drug stores and thus deliberately
Wrecked business. His purpose
Tiad Seen accomplished. The threat
to national expansion hod been
thwarted.
At his death, Dr. Sappington left
a fund of $20,000 to aid needy stu-
dents of Saline county, Missouri,
to obtain an education. To date,
F. C. Barnhill, Marshall, Mo., re-
ports that, with the accrued inter-
est, $217,614.80 has been expended.
12,584 students aided and $85,551.47
still remains.
Yet, despite great services of the
country doctor, he lies virtually un-
honored in a tomb amid the leaning
tombstones of the Arrow Rock
cemetery. Now, in long overdue
recognition of the doctor's achieve-
ments, the D.A.R. has set out to
provide a suitable memorial.
There are no grounds for dl-
vorce which are accepted In all
48 states.
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Since 1878 the population of
the United States has increased
every year.
For Job Printing—Call 68
Eisenhower Warns of too Much Government
Dwight D. Eisenhower, spdaklng
not as a military leader but aa a
college president, again aaw tit
to warn the nation against letting
the federal government get too
•trong. It waa the aecond time the
aupreme commander of Allied for-
cea in World War II had iaaucd that
warning.
Declaring that ho la opposed to
legislation which would make fed-
eral money available to help pub-
lic schools In all states, he said
such a practice would stimulate
a competition among states and
locaUtlaa for greater shares of gov.
ernment money. •>
He conceded aome areas have
such meager tax resources that
they need air, and that he would
favor aid to such areas; but with-
out abuse or direct interference.
Reformed Head Hunter Geti
Impressive Sight of N. Y.
NEW YORK.—A barefoot South
Sea islander with a blue wool skirt,
a GI haircut, and wearing a big
smile arrived in New York for his
first look at the "big fella place.’’
He found it was the "now me get
up no good” of his life.
By that, Robert Salau, 42, son of
a reformed Solomon Islands head-
hunter, meant the biggest city in
the world was the biggest surprise
of his life.
, He was amazed that the Empire
| State building looked just like the
tattered picture he had carried
i halfway around the world.
I It is "high up too much," he de-
clared.
, Salau, a Seventh-Day Adventist
i missionary, arrived on the Maure-
tania after a visit to England,
France, and Switzerland.
Emphasizing his friendly re-
marks by brandishing an eight-
foot war spear, he said his voyage
on the big ship was “more better
i than a war canoe.”
About 40 years ago Salau’s tribe
was persuaded by missionaries to
stop chopping off the heads of
enemies and also saving the skulls
of deceased members of families.
During the war Salau and thou-
sands of other converts gave vital
information to U.S. marines. He re-
ceived a citation.
In 1911 the first American avi-
ation pilot’s license was issued
to Glenn Curtiss.
New Jersey Is the only state !
which elects its governor for a j
term of three years.
Benjamin Franklin introduced !
the broom to America. I
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Spark each costume with the
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Valley green, Carmel brown,
Pacific blue, sparkling red or
smoke grey. Sizes 10-18.
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Webb, Leonard. The West News (West, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1949, newspaper, August 12, 1949; West, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth590530/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting West Public Library.