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Thursday, August 24, 1967
PALACIOS BEACON. PALACIOS. TEXAS
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A BEACON CLASSIFIED IS YOUR CHEAPEST WORKER
E. F. (GENE) HARVEY
—B U I L D E R —
Remodeling — Repairs — Cabinets
NO JOB TOO LARGE or TOO SMALL
ROUTE 1 PALACIOS
MR* BAIRD*
Stays Fresh Long
er
RED BARN
BEL SHIPPER
P-M-S
BULK LIQUID RUMINANT
SUPPLEMENT
FOR CATTLE AND SHEEP
—GUARANTEED ANALYSIS
CRUDE PROTEIN, NOT LESS THAN - 38.00%
CRUDE FAT, NOT LESS THAN - ■ 0.10%
CRUDE FIBER, NOT MORE THAN - 0.25%
PHOSPHORUS (P), NOT LESS THAN - 1.20%
NITROGEN FREE EXTRACT, NOT
LESE THAN..... 44.00%
VITAMIN “A” NOT LESS THAN
17,500 USP UNITS PER POUND
VITAMIN “D” NOT LESS THAN
5,000 USP UNITS PER POUND
— FREE DELIVERY-
FEEDER TROUGHS FURNISHED
AT NO COST
RED BARN
FERTILIZERS • CHEMICALS
PALACIOS, TEXAS
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PHONE 824-2364
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Hints To Prevent A
Fire In Your Home
AUSTIN—'Three-fourths of the
more than 14,000 fires which will
strike Texas homes this year are
caused by carelessness, says the
Texas Insurance Advisory Associa-
tion.
The possibility of fire in the
home can be reduced by making a
check of potential hazards and re-
moving them. Here are some tips
from the TIAA on how to go about
it:
1—Throw out unneeded combust-
ibles, including old newspapers and
magazines, discarded clothing, old
paint cans, worn-out brushes and
other combustibles. Never keep
gasoline in the house. Cans of paint
and paint brushes you wish to keep
should be kept in tightly closed
metal containers.
2 — All electrical appliances
should be checked to see if they
are in good condition. Replace cords
that are worn or frayed. Have need-
ed electrical repair work done by
a qualified electrician. Be sure that
cords and appliances have the label
or marker of Underwriters Labora-
tories. Only 15 ampere fuses should
be used in the fuse box for regu-
lar household lighting circuits,
and never substitute a penny for a
fuse.
3— Have your heating system
checked yearly by a qualified heat-
ing man.
4— Keep matches out of the reach
of children and away from heat.
5— If members of the family
smoke, keep plenty of ashtrays
around the house and empty them
frequently. Be sure cigarettes and
cigars discarded in the ashtray are
really out before dumping into the
wastebasket. And, of course, never
smoke in bed.
6— Know the number of the local
fire department, keeping a notation
of it near the telephone. If your
city has fire alarm boxes, know the
location of the one nearest to the
house.
7— Have a fire escape plan for
your home and make sure all mem-
bers of the family know the details
of it. Practice it. A family should
be able to evacuate a typical one-
family house in less than one
minute.
8— When employing a baby-sit-
ter, tell her how to get the children
out of the house in case of fire. Be
sure she realizes that if a fire
occurs, she should get the children
out of the house first, call the fire
department next from a neighbor’s
telephone and then call the parents.
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Extension Home Economists' Notes
NELL PRICE — MABLE FERGUSON — JANIS GIBSON
County Home Demonstration Agents
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Beware of instant flour. There’s
more in the cup than meets the
eye.
When baking with instant flour,
take 2 level tablespoons out of
each cup of flour called for by the
recipe.
A full measure of instant flour
in a cake or cookie recipe, designed
for regular flour, may alter the
shape, texture and flavor of the
final product.
Instant flour is processed with
steam or hot water after regular
milling to make tiny granules stick
together as larger particles. This
takes up less space in a measuring
cup. Therefore, instant flour mixes
more readily with water without
forming lumps and is a handy pro-
duct for making gravy.
In baking, instant flour weighs
more per cup and takes up liquid
faster than regular flour, leaving
too much flour for the dough in
relation to the liquid.
For example, in popovers, the
batter doesn’t contain enough for
the product to “pop” properly.
The Agricultural Research Ser-
vice suggests improving the taste
and appearance of pastry by adding
more fat to the dough. Some com-
panies making instant flour sug-
gest that extra fat be added to
the product to help overcome the
tendency of instant flour to soak
up water.
Although a little extra fat helps,
researchers warn that adding extra
water to the dough is no solution.
This destroys the proper balance
between ingredients and tends to
ruin the baked product.
Jackson County Soil
Conservation News
John E. Frankson of Carancahua
and Rudolph Skalcky of Ganado,
Supervisors of the Jackson Soil and
Water Conservation District, along
with Troy N. Berry, work unit
conservationist, and soil conser-
vationist Erwin A. Pavik of the
Edna Work Unit of the Soil Con-
servation Service plan to attend the
dedication of the Knox City Plant
Materials Center on September 7.
Donald A. Williams, SCS Admin-
istrator, Washington, D. C., will be
the key speaker and H. N. Smith,
State Conservationist, will be mast-
ter of ceremonies.
Rowland H. Macy is credited with
having conceived the department
store idea in America.
L S. 'Mutt' MOORE
40 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN
SERVICE STATION KNOW-HOW
* * * *
Mutt Says . . .
Cars are my occupation, I'm the
best tire and grease man in this
county. You all come see me and
register for the
"Mutt'
FREE
OSTERIZER 8-SPEED IMPERIAL VIII BLENDER
TO BE GIVEN AWAY LABOR DAY, MON., SEPT. 4
AT THE
GLENDALE
24-HR. TEXACO
PHONE 824-2131
NEAR THE 'Y'
Is it real or plastic? This ques-
tion is asked concerning many ob-
jects in our world today.
And, the truth of the matter is
that it’s real plastic.
Molded plastic components are
now producing authentic reproduc-
tions of furniture taken from age-
less design periods. New and orig-
inal American ideas are also being
created.
Plastic enables the furniture
manufacturer to offer the widest
possible assortment of styles for
the consumer, adding the features
of durability and uniformity often
not possible with all wood furni-
ture. Although currently the new
molded components prevail in outer
decorative treatment, they event-
ually will be used for inner work-
ing furniture parts.
The intent is not to fool the con-
sumer, but to provide a perfect
match for the wood components
still used. Manufacturers make no
bones about the plastic components’
“simulating” wood graining and
texture.
Results are intricately-designed
furniture buys within the budget
range of the majority of American
homemakers. No longer does ele-
gance have to be linked with
luxury.
• * •
One-stop shopping, at one time
unique to the days of the pioneers,
is again entering the American
scene.
Take a look at the average gro-
cery bill. It will likely show an
average of $20 spent for food and
another $4.60 for non-food items
In the past 10 years, food sales
huve increased 51 percent, while
non-food sales in grocery stores
have increased 140 percent.
Much of the grocery money to-
day goes for items to stock the (
the hundred and one other items
found in the modern market.
One such item, cigarettes, is pur-
chased in the grocery store be-
cause of convenience and economy
of the carton. The supermarket is,
in fact, the greatest single outlet
for cigarettes. Today, 30 to 40 per-
cent of the nation’s sales are in
grocery stores, whereas five years
ago, supermarkets accounted for
only 28 percent.
Small kitchen utensils and gad-
gets, snack sets, patio furniture—
all are frequently labeled as im-
pulse items in the grocery store.
Magazine sales have increased as
much as 38 percent in one year in
the supermarket.
And the trend is for more and
more non-food items to be bought
through this market. In 1948, 11
percent of the grocery dollar went
for non-food items. In 1959 the
figure stood at 16 percent: today’s
figures fhow 23 percent.
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No, potatoes aren’t fattening.
No food is fattening until your
body’s need for calories has been
met. Surplus food from any source
is changed to fat and stored in the
body.
One medium-size potato, five
ounces, supplies 90 calorics. This
is about the same as a medium-
sized apple, pear, grapefruit or
orange, none of which is considered
a high-calorie food.
Added fat and gravy, often serv-
ed with potatoes, do increase the
calorie count considerably. For ex-
ample, fried potatoes may be two
to three times as high in calories
as the same weight of boiled or
baked potatoes. And the sour cream
or butter or margarine added to
the baked potato for tastiness also
add up in the calorie category.
But, it’s not the potatoes that
add pounds, it’s the surplus calories
from other sources.
* * •
What a child wants for breakfast
and what mother wants him to eat
often are nutritionally equal. A
breakfast of a hot dog, bun, milk
shake and an orange is the same
nutritionally as a breakfast of
orange juice, egg, cereal and milk.
Research has brought another
convenience product to the home-
maker—instant fruit. Peaches, blue-
berries, and strawberries are re-
duced to a puree to which sugar
and chemicals are added. The puree
is frozen into pellets which are de-
hydrated by a freeze-drying pro-
cess. This removes moisture with-
out changing the fruits physical
characteristics. Fruits that are too
mature for shipping may be suc-
cessfully used in this process.
» * »
To remove a meat juice stain
from a white or colorfast cotton
tablecloth, first sponge the stain
with cool water. Or soak the cloth
in cool water for 30 minutes. Then
| rub detergent into the spot and
A. & M. Specialist Suggests Testing
Of Correct Soil For Fall Seeded Crops
COLLEGE STATION—Though
it is dry over much of the state,
farmers should not neglect prepa-
rations for all seeded crops, in-
cluding soil tests on the acreage to
be seeded.
A good soil sample yields good
pend basically on whether ingred-
ients are fine or coarse. Finer ma-
terials can stand higher kiln tem-
peratures; and the greater the
heat, the harder, stronger and less
porous the ware.
There are seven types of dishes.
“Pottery” stands at the coarse
end. It is thick, porous, easily
chipped and broken. Colors are us-
ually bright and rustic and the
glass often opaque.
“Earthenware,” often called
isemi-vitreus or white ware, is pro-
duced from less coarse clay. Baked
longer and at higher temperature
than pottery, it is lighter in weight
and color. “Ironstone” is a par-
ticularly strong earthenware.
“Stoneware” is fully vitrified,
non-porous and not prone to chip-
ping. It may be thinner than earth-
enware but weightier. Its dark color
prevents delicate decoration. It is
characteristically finished with
enamels and dull glazes.
“China” has still finer materials.
Its most notable trait is trans-
lucency. “Fine china” is so named
because it is made of powderlike
ingredients. The term “fine china”
does not denote quality. It is ex-
tremely delicate looking, but actual-
ly is very strong.
“Bone china” is fine china hav-
ing 25 to 45 percent calcined bone
ash, which fires to a dead white
instead of ivory.
“Porcelain” is fine china made
by reverse or “hard” firing, using
cooler fire and then hotter, fusing
the glaze into the clay.
soil test recommendations, reminds
Dr. C. D. Welch, Extension soil
chemist at Texas A&M University.
Welch explains if the sample is
not representative of the area front
which the soil is taken, the test re-
sults can be misleading and inac-
curate recommendations can result.
By testing now samples will bet
dry, information will be available
for fertilizing planned small grain
fields and carryover in the soil of
unused fertilizer due to dry 1967
weather will be reflected in the
test analysis, Welch said. This last
factor could have considerable in-
fluence on fertilizer and liming
recommendations, the chemist said.
A soil test measures the rela-
tive available nutrient levels of
the soil and when coupled with the
soil type and previous crop and
fertilizer history, makes a good
guide for the profitable use of com-
mercial fertilizer, Welch explained.
He said reports from over the
state indicate that despite the dry
growing season in many sections,
fertilized crops produced consider-
ably greater vojume than crops not
fertilized according to test recom-
mendations.
He noted that in several sections
of the state, county and even area-
wide soil testing drives will soon
bo getting underway and said the
laboratories were ready to handle
the influx of samples. This is nor-
mally our slack season, and we can
get results back to the producers in
a minimum amount of time, he said.
STATED MEETING
PALACIOS LODGE
No. 990 A. F. & A. M.
1st Thursday every month 8:00 p.m.
Visiting Brethren Always Welcome
Abel Pierce, Jr., W. M.
R. G. Christianson, Sec.
launder the cloth in hot suds.
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What new bride isn’t totally be-
wildered by the vast assortment of
new dinnerware creations for her
cupboard? Knowing a few basic
facts will help her in choosing the
most appropriate type.
All dishes but plastic and metal
ones are ceramics, shaped from
wet clay and usually hardened in
extremely hot ovens. They are fired
a second time to fuse a thin trans-
parent or opaque coating called a
bathroom, cleaning closet, toys for ‘ glaze.
the children, magazines and all of I Among ceramics, differences de-
PQJBLIC NOTICE
proposed CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
NUMBER ONE ON THE BALLOT
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE I ize an additional annual ad va-
LEGISLATURE OF THE lorem tax to be levied and col-
STATE OF TEXAS:
Section 1. That Section 9,
Article VIII, Constitution of
the State of Texas, be amend-
ed to read as follows:
“Section 9. The State tax on
property, exclusive of the tax
necessary to pay the public
debt, and of the taxes provided
for the benefit of the public
free schools, shall never exceed
Thirty-five Cents (35#) on the
One Hundred Dollars ($100)
valuation; and no county, city
lected for the further mainte-
nance of the public roads; pro-
vided, that a majority of the
qualified property taxpaying
voters of the county voting at
an election to be held for that
purpose shall vote such tax,
not to exceed Fifteen Cents
(15#) on the One Hundred Dol-
lars ($100) valuation of the
property subject to taxation in
such county. Any county may
put all tax money collected by
the county into one general
or town shall levy a tax rate fund, without regard to the
in excess of Eighty Cents (80#)
on the One Hundred Dollars
($100) valuation in any one
(1) year for general fund,
permanent improvement fund,
road and bridge fund and jury
fund purposes; provided fur-
ther that at the time the Com-
missioners Court meets to levy
the annual tax rate for each
county it shall levy whatever
tax rate may be needed for the
four (4) constitutional pur-
poses; namely, general fund,
permanent improvement fund,
road and bridge fund and jury
fund so long as the Court does
not impair any outstanding
bonds or other obligations and
so long as the total of the fore-
going tax levies does not ex-
ceed Eighty Cents (80#) on the
One Hundred Dollars ($100) j
valuation in any one (1) year.
Once the Court has levied the
annual tax rate, the same shall
remain in force and effect dur-
ing that taxable year; and the;
Legislature may also author-}
purpose or source of each tax.
And the Legislature may pass
local laws for the maintenance
of the public roads and high-
ways, without the local notice
required for special or local
laws. This Section shall not be
construed as a limitation of
powers delegated to counties,
cities or towns by any other
Section or Sections of this
Constitution.”
Sec. 2. The foregoing con-
stitutional amendment shall be
submitted to a vote of the
qualified electors of this state
at an election to be held on
November 11, 1967, at which
election all ballots shall have
printed on them the following:
“FOR the constitutional
amendment allowing counties
to put all county taxes into
one general fund.”
“AGAINST the constitution-
al amendment allowing
counties to put all county
taxes into one general fund.”
DID YOU SHARE
IN THIS DIVIDEND!
The Federal Land Bank Association of
Edna announces a $33,045.30 dividend
to its stockholders.
Farmers and ranchers who have Land
Bank loans own the association and
share in its earnings.
For information about a long term-low
payment Land Bank loan on your land
see D. T. Roddy, Jr., Manager, 606 N.
Wells St. in Edna.
9
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PUBLIC NOTICE
Proposed CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
NUMBER SIX ON THE BALLOT
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE
LEGISLATURE OF THE
STATE OF TEXAS:
Section 1. That Section 33,
Article XVI, Constitution of
the State of Texas, be amended
to read as follows:
“Section 33. The Accounting
Officers of this State shall
neither draw nor pay a war-
rant upon the Treasury in
favor ot any person for salary
or compensation as agent,
officer or appointee, who holds
at the same time any other
office or position of honor,
trust, or profit, under this
State, except as prescribed in
this Constitution. Provided,
that this restriction as to the
drawing and paying of war-
rants upon the Treasury shall
not apply to officers of the
National Guard or Air Na-
tional Guard of Texas, the Na-
tional Guard Reserve, the Air
National Guard Reserve, the
Air Force Reserve, the Of-
ficers Reserve Corps of the
United States, nor to enlisted
men of the National Guard,
the Air National Guard, the
National Guard Reserve, the
Air National Guard Reserve,
the Air Force Reserve, and the
Organized Reserve of the
United States, nor to retired
officers of the United States
Army, Air Force, Navy, and
Marine Corps, and retired
warrant officers and retired
enlisted men of the United
States Aj-my, Air Force, Navy,
and Marine Corps. It is further
provided, until September 1,
1969, and thereafter only if
authorized by the Legislature
by general law under such re-
strictions and limitations as
the Legislature may prescribe,
that a non-elective State of-
ficer or employee may hold
other non-elective offices or
positions of honor, trust, or
profit under this State or the
United States, if the other
offices or positions are of
benefit to the State of Texas
or are required by State or
federal law. and there is no
conflict with the original of-
fice or position for which he
receives salary or compensa-
tion. No member of the Legis-
lature of this State may hold
any other office or position of
profit under this state, or the
United States.”
Sec. 2. The foregoing con-
stitutional amendment shall be
submitted to a vote of the
qualified electors of this state
at an election to be held on
November 11, 1967, at which
election all ballots shall have
printed thereon the following:
“FOR the constitutional
amendment allowing non-
elective state officers and
employees to serve in other
non-elective offices or posi-
tions under this state or the
United States until Septem-
ber 1, 1969, and thereafter
only if authorized by the
Legis'ature, if the offices or
positions are of benefit to
Texas or are required by
state or federal law, and
there is no conflict of inter-
est with the original office
or position; prohibiting
elected officers under this
state or the United States
from holding any other of-
fice or position under this
state; and adding members
of the Air National Guard,
Air National Guard Reserve,
Air Force Reserve, and re-
tired members of the Air
Force to the list of persons
exempted.”
“AGAINST the constitution-
al amendment allowing non-
elective state officers and
employees to serve in other
non-elective offices or posi-
tions under this state or the
United States until Septem-
ber 1, 1969, and thereafter
only if authorized by the
Legislature, if the offices or
positions avo of benefit to
Texas or are required by
state or federal law, and
there is no conflict of inter-
est with the original office
or position; prohibiting
elected officers under this
state or the United States
from holding any other of-
fice or position under this
state; and adding members
of the Air National Guard,
Air National Guard Reserve,
Air Force Reserve, and re-
tired members of the Air
Force to the list of persons
exempted.”
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