The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1954 Page: 7 of 8
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THK BIG WU WILDCAT, BIG LAKE, REAGAN CBUNTY, TEXAS
PAGE SEVEN
UTS TALK
LIVESTOCK
sv TED GOULD'i
OIN&fa) io
Choui Mmt
+ fn hornet served by
WTU, the average cost
of a kilowatt-hour of
Hettrlt Service It 22%
USS than It was In 1944.
“Cock-a-doodle do, my dame has lost her shoe"
— and the way prices have risen my master
may lose his shirt! Yes...
• COST Of LIVING IS SKY HIGH
• COST Of GOVERNMCNT IS SKY HIGH
• M (OS! Of DOING BUSINESS IS SKY HIGH
But me — I've got a right to crow — I'm work-
ing for you at ‘LOWER wages per hour than
ever! Yep! Your ilettrlc Service It the ONLY
thing that costs LtSS now than It did 10
years agol Be Modern . Live Electrically!
,KUo<tKtft
Westlexas Utilities
Company
Port Worth —- Stocker and feed-
er cattle and calves of good or
choice quality moved out of Port
Worth Monday at steady prices,
and quality and fills considered,
some spota were firm to strong.
The desirable kinds of steer
calves cleared at 420 to $22 readily,
with a few to $23 Last week some
327 -pound steer calves reached
$24 which were consigned by Joy
Lina White of McCulloch County
On Monday some feeder steers
of 991-pounds cashed at $20 Stock-
er cows find a rather quiet trade,
but most observers agree this Is
due In large part to the scarcity
of good cows In the runs that are
made up largely of cut-back, culls
and aged cows.
In view of the approaching sum-
mer season the good outlet for
high grade Stockers Is considered
exceptional by most Interests on
the market However, of great Im-
portance has been the steady
demand for huge quantities of beef
over the country.
Mature steers, cows and bulls
sold at prices about In line with
the low side of last week's close
at Fort Worth Monday Oood and
choice fed steers and yearlings
drew $18 to $23, some 811-lb. Foard
County yearlings at $23 Plain to
medium grassers drew $12 to $17
while canner yearlings ranged
down to $9 or below
Fat cows drow $10 to $13, a few
higher C a n n e r s and cutters
brough' $6 to $10 Bulls sold at $9
to $14. Good and choice fat calves
cleared at $16 50 to $21, a few fancy
heavies to the butcher trade at
$22 Common to medium butcher
calves drew $10 to $15 50, and culls
earned $8 to $10
Sheep and lambs cleared at
prices that were unevenly steady
on most kinds with the low close
of the previous week, except new
crop 8prlng lambs lost around $1
per hundred.
Trade has been more quiet on
stocker types of ewes as many po-
tential buyers have been busy with
farm work.
Oood and choice spring lambs
topped at $23 at Port Worth Mon-
day Good to choice kinds sold
1 from $18 to $23 with common
and medium sorts $12 to $18, and
| culls $10 to $12. 8horn fat old crop
lambs bulked at $15 to $16. a few
| to $17. Common and medium kinds
drew $11 to $14, with culls around
Twentieth Century Club
REPRESENTING
Shirley Floral Co.
107 W. BEAUREGARD SAN ANGELO
FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS
CALL MRS. H. A. HARTGROVE—PHONE 243
OR MRS. KILL FRIEND—PHONE 124
PARK INN CAFE
PIT COOKED BARBECUE
SPECIAL MEXICAN FOODS
TACOS—ENCHILADAS—SPECIAL MEXICAN DINNERS
S-T-E-A-K-S
Ills a BUICK! It’s aV8!
Ite ft few dollar* more Ilian I lie
PT>A$B heart, |ood friend—you can buy a
1 hit-of-the-ycar Huick if you can afford
any new car.
And we’ll gladly straw our price tag to
prove it.
For the price on this tag is the delivered
price—the local price—of the new Buick
SPECIAL 2-door, 6-passenger Sedan —and
it’a juat a few dollar* away from those of
the so-called “low-price three”—lower,
b fact, than even some models of those
very same cars.
But look what this Buick price gets you!
It gets you the very look of tomorrow in
styling modernity, even to the spectacular
new panoramic windshield tbst seems to
outdate everything before it.
It gets you Buick V8 power—highest in
Special history — plus the economy of
new Power-Head Pistons.
It gets you Buick room, Buick luxury,
Buick size and structure and solidity-
including of course, the famed Million
Dollar Ride and a new precision in
handling ease.
It gets you, too, solid and deep-down value.
For any way you look at it, you're money
ahead with the car that's yesrs-ahead now
in looks and line and the lift of ita power
—and the car that’s outselling rt<orj other
car in America except two of the ”low-price
three.”
Drop in today or the first thing tomorrow
—just to try and to drive and to compare
a new Buick. We’ll let the car prove its
pouts.
Ion -price cars f
Come In And Check The Price!
This 1954 BUICK SPECIAL
2-Door, 6-Passenger Sedan
actually costs less than some
models of the "low-price three"!
j^Qteondef
Buick Sales
are Soaring!
rnr arms ainoMOtnis am swat sutca anti tuna
POTEET MOTOR COMPANY
$10 Feeder old crop lambs drew
$14 down Spring feeder iambs
sold at $16.50 down.
Slaughter ewej bulked at $6 to
$6 Old wethers sold for $8 to $11.
Two-year-old muttons cashed at
$10 to $13. Old bucks sold around
$4 to $5
Hogs picked themselves up off
the mat for a 25 to 50c advance
Monday and a top of 426J50 at Fort
Worth Last week they closed at
$26. the lowest levels since March
here.
Hogs of less desirable slaughter
qualities and less attractive
weights sold at $23 to $26.26 8ows
cashed at $18 to $21
It Is not often we need shed a
tear for the very efficient operators
of our nation's meal business.
They arc very able and competent,
and heaven help them If they were
not!
However, last week they had our
heartfelt sympathy!
Last Friday the regional report
from the UBDA that (overs the
East—and such cities at New York,
Baltimore. Washington, Philadel-
phia and Boston reported that
In the late trade lamb careasses
were selling from $2 higher to $3
lower, while at the same Interval
pork was selling from $3 to $2
lower!
With a swing of 6 cents per
pound In the wholesale prices of
the same kind of meat in a single
day. imagine if you can a poor
packer buyer trying to buy live-
stock at Fort Worth that will sell
next week in the densely populated
area In the east!
Wow' There are times when I've
wondered what cruel fate steered
my bewildered steps Into the news
writing game—but last week I
expect the gentlemen trying to op-
erate the packing houses were
really in a state of mind that made
them dream of taking up bcach-
j combing for a living!
NOTICE OF BOARD OF
I EQUALIZATION MEETING
In obedience to an order of the
Board of Equalization, regularly
convened and sitting, notice is
hereby given that said Board of
Equalization will be In session at
Its regular meeting place In tho
Reagan County High School In the
town of Big Lake, Reagan County,
i Texas, at 9:00 A M on Monday,
the 14th day of June. 1954, for the
purpose of determining, fixing and
equalizing the value of any and
all taxable property situated In
Reagan County Independent
School District, Reagan County,
Texas, for taxable purpose* for the
year 1964, and any and all persons
Interested or having business with
said Board are hereby notified to
be present
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF
EQUALIZATION
H A Hartgrove,
Chairman of the Board
of Equalization
Two men In Los Angeles were
! having trouble with their wives
(•0 they got out the scissors and cut
off the ladles' hair The men were
put In Jail
Charge’ Practicing bnrberlng
without a license
Waitress- A girl who thinks
money grows on trays
Lake Lodge No 1*#3.
A FA AM
Stated Meeting
8econd Tuesday?
of each month
J O Lusby, W M
W T Mills Sec,
w. K. (CHILE) HOLT
Water Well Contractor
AND
Windmill Work
and Repair
Phone 99W
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formed and my anklet were tot.
limited space prohibits telling
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me I w(H reply at once ond tell you
bow I received this wonderful relief
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MM Atbet Hills Drive
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Werst, J. L., Jr. & Werst, J. L., Sr. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1954, newspaper, June 11, 1954; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth659044/m1/7/?rotate=0: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.