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The Taft Tribune
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ftTT—TIIK BLACK LAND CITY.
Volume 26.
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTERESTS OF TAFT AND SAN PATRICIO f Ol'NTY.
I aft, I exas, I hursday, July 18, 1946.
TAFT—THE CITY Of OPPORTCNTTf.
Number 11 ,
Cotton Picking Gets
1 leads Rainey l orces
Well Underway Here
LOOKING
AHEAD
rCEORGE S.BFNSON
fWtiJtgr~HarJ/*j Cclltft
Setrrg Jrtcmjp
Entire Acreage Expected To Be Ready
For Pickers Next Week; County’s Crop
Expected to I otal Around 30,000 Bales
Good Strategy
irrc?S!*rn;»n Halt n Sumner*,
With the harvesting and shipping of the largest grain)
crop in its history just finished, San Patricio County
farmers have turned their attention to oid King Cotton.’
JTpi’r.T’.n ’or:”.- Air.enca's gren’t ' and picking is under way throughout the county. By the
tBvinK ?*^:osmen. has .ir.nouiu«<i: coming week the entire cotton acreage wil! be ready for
■€ purrn.iic to retire at the er.d of '
fe 79th cor.^rcis. This news tirst
•peered as a dark cloud because
en like t irn are sorely needed to-
but in Washington list month
Taft Nears 1,000 Mark In
Number Cars Grain Shipped
H. W. Gi*t Head*
County Vocational
School Organization
LINDEMAN
was
4TIT
‘0U
The
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, .\n the s.iver
is "r-t rirj;"
pickers. Picking started several days ago in the St. Pauli
community, and W. W. Poole, who farms in that section Dl Homer P. Rainey, can-
oi the conut v, .■•aid he has already picked several bales. I didate for governor, has ap-
| . ! pointed I. E. Lindemai. of
Expects to Get Out 40 Bales a Day I Taft as Sar, Patricio County
Carl Hunt, of ; ar Taft already had a large crew in
•-pie ■ f Arr
•ric;
to
VC ;;a dan-
i al! and
i.-m-
manager of his campaign tor
, , , the governorship. Leading
!u Held and he getting out auout 13 bales a day. ti he! the field of 13 gubernatorial
'•an get picker , he expects to be ginning around 40 bales a; aspirants,
clay next we -k
:»<■; e
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KcuneUi \T Kainry, on- ot the.* largest cotton 1 armor-.
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ners will
ht to them.
Powerful Truths
v. n?vh« d what my own
. . r.;t5 be.-*; d to
,-t r > *»•■!. < * -u-1 tic
; i. v i r cy ;v ed th: - .
ill San Patricio (.’minty.
Guedin I o Gather
A yield of
plans to begin picking Monday.
11 4 Bales Ac re
* Taft almost reached the 1,000-mark in the number of
I cars of grain shipped from here this season, it was stated
today by S. R Phillips, local Southern Pacific agent.
Up to today iThursday) a total at 93*4 cars had been
shipped, and it was expected that a small amount of late
grain yet to be cut would bring the total number of car*
up to 950. However, a temporary car shortage caused a
considerable quantity of grain to be hauled in trucks to
Corpus Christ!, where it was shipped out by barge. Had
this been shipped by rail, the total would have passed
the 1,000-mark
Last year 042 cars of grain were shipped from Taft.
Over at Gregory. 233 cars had been shipped from that
point up to today (Thursday), Miss Viva Kale, station ag-
ent there, said Miss Kale indicated that probably three
or four more cars would be shipped this season.
Funeral Services For
H. Woody Nelson
Held At Timpson
DISCHARGED
according to the
j Texas Poll, Dr Rainey ex-
pect to have a county man-
ager in each of the 254
counties in Texas before Ju-I
ly 27. election day. Mr
,, . . . , Lindeman has asked any lo- ii
much as one and one-fourth bales pen cal viotitirter*. «•„ ,
almost certain in Krnest Guedin’.-; cotton this! to contact ihrn if tiiev’wi'h a"r tUlLUre teacher in
Taft farmer, a pioneer in the! to take an active part ’in the
H. W. GIST
tV. Gist, former voca-
;.cre seem
< t. on The well-known
thi
Tatt area aid today that it was the best crop lie had eampaic'iiing during the fi
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race.
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i'-ed h e
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wri.aker "By
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and ti.t* le
, pf L. .
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i-jiice the
or; .
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rie il (X-
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■ ir% a <j
f I.;.-.-
a ti v. nderifi^
got err-
•t*. ft »•
Barreration irr.p
• i'srnli? of
fr/
control. W*i-
••fit -»r ii
,f fa*.’ r.n-.r: . -
■l-ros-iio n
Ltc- .(
ti 7ii It \a th*.: dt;.4'ru> * r of
kt. - .
c, self re<p» cl
nr ! elf
pr.i-.i;
ahiiity with: Jt
which oo
{til- enr
remain free "
ever made in San Patricio County, and he had been a re.si
jden". here for 35 yar.s. Ernest's cotton is south of Taft.j
tanci his fairly large acreage covers a wide variety of soil.
! Home field.- look better than other.;, but on the whole his
•top indicate.-, a high average yield. He said that he wa- Fly To Chicago
an appii-i
Simon High School and
il recently with
cultural department
The following is re-printed!
from the July 12 issue of)
The Timpson Weekly Times;!
If. Woody Nelfon. 52. sue *
cumbec! at his home in Cbr-1
pus Chri ti July 3rd. at 11 j
p m Tire body was brought l
to Timpson, arriving Friday!
afternoon
or Abi-1 this city Saturday afternoon i
at 3 o’clock, with the Rev. T.'
Cage Executives
Coumf and .3" head'The' SmUH"oVficTAting/ as-'
Count y Vocational School,
lucky In a way, because he managed to get on ......,, __
cation oi DDT at a tame wiicn few of his neighbors did.11‘ Y i;bis.«. manager of
The application wa.- made at a time when flea, hoppers; ;Iore.?f ca;’’ Hard-
X- f-urmture Co, and
Kenneth E.
sisted by G B Sanford In-
“ I"* — « »P to|GS^Srr<",nW”a-
w-rc attacking young cotton an dthre&teninp the crop.
»>« w™. Momiiki!KSwim.’nu'^rS!™.
area- Home
Gist, a veteran of World! Mr v.i«,n was born in
Wavell, mating- War I. served as
wholesale depart- agriculture teacher in the!
the Cage South Slnton schools for seven!
of hot. .sunshiny weather followed before another period j ment
- a .hovv. r.s ,n The iiea hopper menace was checked i Texas chain of -tores, are years, and during the war iT-”»‘ feu-' vArX' when he
permanently He believe.- the high yield hi cotton is making: spending this week in Chi- served «* ' - y ■ ■
Mr Nelson ...
vocational ;Rusk county, and has lived
"'in the vicinity all his life
with the exception of the
as teacher-trainer at
wa-
this season can be credited directly to the consistent fight | (;ago. where they are buying A. & I. College. With the
again.- ( insect • which he carried oil
Price of 40 C ents By Aug. I Predicted
various stocks of merchan- aid of the
ui c for the Case stores im-'county and other sections of
located at Corpus Chrlsti
, , .. . He had many friends In
people of this i Timpson and vicinity, all of
Walter and Jim Cunningham of Taft,
llul Hn-rr\ Hope
, public awakcniiiil will save till* tjlfl
* y 'r-,tn any form ! tyranny.
, Sumners does not doubt this,
mid. "Washington :» as s<-r.:ii*
i piement houses and funeral the state he built and put ^path
farmers, cotton| t!frm,he ’-SL^hl ,Jfl Tt0 operation an agriculture;' He ls survived by his wife
a'. San Eitru-io, rvG,' r’ ceparurnent a. the Abilenej^jrs jewel Nelson; three
Fhr,:sHfT.T?ileIe „a„??®i.tio.1} sons, Unwood Nelson. Cor-
j pus ClirisU. Billy Nelson,
with the Marine Corps in
the South Pacific; two
Hud-
Red <& White Store
he relinquished recently to'
come here to take up the
work with th Veterans Ad-
ministration.
i Mr. and Mrs
! and son, Wayne,
„ , Mr and Mrs. Gist stated
•> C. Quarles they were happy to be back
in South Texas where Mrs.
are the
! 30.000 bales. Acreage in the county was greatly reduced
; this year; and the field, generally speaking, is far below
average. Walter predicts that the price of cotton wall; Has New Owners
probably reach 40 cents a pound by August 1.
Mr Cunningham called attention to the fact that al
Ik) the changing eu.-rer.n < f put- ! though the ant ion’s total acreage this season is only about: new owners and operators of «i«.f WJl, r_„rpfi „nri wh„p
cpmi’m ai i bjr.ffif.er u t» re- 2.000,000 acres under that of 1944 and about the same as ! the Taft Grocery (Red &j oist has* worked most of
last year, tire chief reason for the rise in cotton prices Is j White store) which they) bj‘s jjjp
the poor yield that is being made throughout the produc- 1 *
ing states. The poor yield, added to the slightly reduced
acreage, is tending to boast prices rapidly, Mr. Cunning-
ham pointed out.
daughters, Mrs. R. If.
4 change* in the weather." LT
* Of congre** fa.! to reflect pub-
tun ent. it il because each <en-
is itself confused or uidu
jt !■■. trie majority.
Me. Surr.r.ors is taking t - the tec-
I
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ia ;j
il
I a*i'n h:rn a
f ur.d
Jar c
Aide ;
p:
iucation
f irst Balt- Ginned in Taft July 3
purchased from Mrs. Chas.!
Svadienak. whose late hus-l
conducted
He said Tuesday,
it will give me a great deal
of pleasure to serve my for-
Granville (Heavy) Moody,
who held the rating of Cap-
tain in the U. S. Army, and
a radio maintenance officer,
received his discharge at Ft.
Sam Houston on Juiy 2, fol-
lowing more than three
years in the service. He is
married and. resides at Jack-
sonville, Texas.
man, Jumbo community;
Mrs. E. F Lange. Corpus
Chrlsti; four brothers, Glen
Nelson. Houston; Kosa Nel-
son, Clarksville; B. D. Nel-
son, Taft; L. M. Johnston.
Benson, La: four sisters
199 Persons in
County Receive S, S*
insurance Payments
More than *34,543 is being
paid annually In monthly
payments to 199 men, wo-
men and children in San Pa-
Mrs. Arthula Scoggins, Mar- TiCl°,£°U„ntI.,under,the old"
band owned and
this popular store
years until his recent ueain.' _ **««.»
Mr ,,nd i»-c oinrw or,, a ?r«tat program, designed to Herrington San ____________
*.....1 5uar,t"’ ar help the veterans in becom-|Mrf. ‘K®n<ja Wood, Austin j report just received from
Antonio; I curlty Act- according to a
well known in the Taft com-'
r
Ta
Dl
The fir ; bale of the 1945 crop produced in the county rnumtv. where Uvv h.ave1 lnR ,re-estabilshed m life. ; --------------------- J1. **
.......... and ““n,raM ”ul rts!™
towns in the county, in order) ^ 15 counties in the area set-
to render a more efficient I ciass^ of Vi—d by the CorPUS Christ!
U>n irk iblu ll< i Ofd
1 t
m)<
r it
mi
% n
i
pov
tic
lime Mr Quaries was con--
necied with the Brooks Gin
Mrs. Quaries was employed
in the store prior to the
dea th of Mr. S va dlenak
The -lore, under the new
management, will continue
in
■ w F..-v -’or f i. on Juiy 5 It wa • prod - *! >v T E.
icar and his ‘•or.- or. their farm near Gregory. Marshall
km at.c Claiborne Jone-. local buyers, bought the bale
,- 23 1-2 cent.- a pouod. Mr Duncan slid hi- cott-nn Is
iron; the Delfo- 719 variety of cotton seed.
Phosjihatfi in Demand By Farmers
Lull Patricio County farmers am making application' featurin'-.' i he well-known
f. ,i ■ . ! hi •um-nt i faster titan dealer -. under Rc-d Wl-.i’c rroducts The
; '< :r;11 ..ondition.-. can .vupply it.
Farmer--' who planted yraiti plan to apply phosphate
; to the >nibble land and then plant a cover crop of peas to
be i-iiii U!i(:c! t-.ext tali
Jon.-. K. and 'A W Boose, bm:tiler who ’.arm in the-
•Si pi ii area., were in Taft today and placed an order for
•\vo car; m» -uperphosphan.' to he applied to their grain
i.jiKi. W V.. Pooir- -dd ttiiu in iddi-Hcn to applying -.;ber-
pln- ;d.a‘e to !;: , grain la.id. 1, inti ad.-; to .-idecirv.-..- the
r< v.. with amm-oninm nitrate
ion
vf d
ti*
: the
*TS
in thi
i-r- solicit a ■ c-n-
oi the nice patron-
Mr. Svadienak en •
siici’ig aonrte'i r
fair prices and
S i-l-i-;:. 1 .(;. ■»
your intention tr.
fi.*- new -tore own-
s issue.
Mrs.
, . _________ T, I ess to uie LAircAS ; nff
service to ail veterans.. '• F the Baptist Church at hem ' ' ddlM t th ..
plantied to -tart a c . u a.. b()me Thursday. July 11th : lv Lmm ,
training August l.d; . The m-eting was opened' $ 5'3 1 lump
MAJOR ALBERT LONG | £>th s«nf-. JSvJa^bv {>ald to 63 P«rsons in
NOW AT SYR ACUSE. N. Y. J .,1,^1 area
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Long j dem. ........... llad • sum payment may be
payments
to 63
during the
quarter of this year.
were
this
second
.A lump
tins week received a message; Mrs. J. E- 'when'’iio'‘one who is^elSbte
from their son Major Albert charge o, the devotional,, t0 yecejye a nionthtv nav-
K. Lon., in which he sided taken from the ^cond chap-|ment £urvives a dece^d
that he is somewhat dot- te: of J.,>-.hua._ oval.ng )uy‘i insured worker.
a', Syracuse' the woman, Rahab, whom|
It was emphasized that
I the payments must be ap-
Back At His Office
; I -.: •> .- ; :,f ft M.-.-!) I. -.,r ./•
lor. • •
} « :c ti - t- <a g ■! « •
■WUcd n. . -m>- - tivklf " ; *"■ .-I
tt. Ar, . vutvi j i - -x •
a*i: pi. t i 'liri
i0rr.es 4.J t'li J.iig f.uw i-f ( . .'
Mu
ifor and Mrs. C. J.
#yer Return From
scat ion Trip
J hi ee C rops a Year Raised On Same I .and
Mr. Boole t< a bu.-.y fanner. He uaid that o. .-ome of his;
: land he raises two crops a year while on other parts of hi.y
farm re irfap.iently gatliei- .. . many a:- three crops in 13
months Year before last he planted onions in October.:
! and before they were harvsted the following spring he!
(planted cotton in the middles He harvested his onion crop;
and then cultivated his cotton crop. When the cotton had]
j been picked, lie planted a crop of began which he harvest- j
led in Novembr In 13 months he had gathered three crops|
: ---onions, cotton, began—from the same land. After such
' intense use of the land," Mr. Poole said, "it is essential that
JSJ-or and Mrs. C J. Mey- i something be done to restore the minerals that are taken
mve .returned from a two ,-rom soil bv cropping I intend to fertilize all my land."
n vacation trip to Sails-j ' ... . .
s, N C where they visit-! Cunningham Brothers report that they have already
to the home of Mr and I delivered four cars of superphosphate to farmers In the
. B. P Marshall and j Taft area and that 20 more cars had been booked. It is
Hi" From there, accom- j expected that as many as 50 cars of fertilizer will be dls-
wd by Mr Marshall, they tributed among farmers in the Taft area this year.
other points of inter- ... .... „ r, , . * , ~
te Western North Carol!-!64-Year-Old farmer rrefers Mule 1 earn
nitely located
AAR, Syracuse, N. Y. : was greater than her job.
^ have
bert was made a Majoi oui- on art. literature and scl- jcisj -0y failure of
ing thr- war. He stated, how- ence. , ; 'nnlit’-nrits to annlv for 'the
,-vcr that First Lieuteumt 1-’ The hostess *md a to bcuonts at the pror« Li?
hr- permanent rank to ty plate to the j Cleveland said In comment-
which he will probabi- re- members. M:> V. R. Glas-
turn in about a year Albert - son. Mrs. Gorman Ritchie.:1 on Wt Pa.menu,.
has chosen a permanent. Mrs. H. Rippstein, Mrs Ben;
military career. j C. Krueger, Mrs. H. E. Ban-1
-------------------------- idem. Mrs. W D. Alexander,!
The- Messrs. Whittenburg! Mrs. J E. Olliff and Mrs. J.
land McCoy, publishers of the) Avery Glasson.
; Mathis newspaper, were busl-i -------------------
. ,M“e <* ^
•: jing a splendid newspaper at i Tribune To Be Out
Mathis—The Mathis News I „ . ,
.......................j rtiursday AftcTiiCNDis
BibMd.
WALT** C. SPAM&S
W. C. Sparks, Jr.
! The next tea® of The Taft
I Tribune will be out- on sche-
| dale time. The papers will
! be in the postoffice before
A son was born to Mr and! * p m assuring its receipt
. Mrs. James F. Davis on Sun- > \iy every reader in the coun-
! day, July 14. at the Slnton; ty on Friday—the day be-
i Hospital. He weighed eight | fore the first democratic
has re- pounds, four ounces^ and; primary election. The edi-
sumed his duties as manager' has been named Burton
* * 9 *
tion will carry last minute
appeals and messages from
various candidates.
All news and advertising
itiful lake near “Chim-1 Gumerscindo Garzas farming methods may be some* i 0| tjje insurance firm of j Ranee
Rock" Mountain This I what different from those of his neighbors, but he gets Easterwood, Sparks & Cage.
Dtain derives Its name' along just the same. This 64-year-old farmer in the Blunt-f after some ten months ab- Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Black-,
i it* size and shape It zer Community will have nothing to do with tractors; he. sence due Injuries sustained; mon announce the birth of a copy for the next issue must
!§ feet hieh and it is lo- sticks with a mule tram, and he manages to produce a to an airplane accident. Mr son. born to them at Stolon (be in The Tribune office not
if at a jw»n’ in Hie heurl creditable crop -rich war even if he l.s skiici an ir.icior Spaiks iormer mayor o; Hot pH.u mursday, July 18 , later than 3 p. m. Wednes-
lie Bine Ridge chain 25 farmers He lias 60 acre- m cotton tin. vear. at. indica-' Taft, was seriously injured Me has been named Jon day. July 24.
» southern* of Asheville. ....... ,u„ >.. (,,;i t- ■ vieui ih - com ,-v- occurred ot: Blackmon Mrs Blackmon 1.- TV:s U Iving mMiedJ
’ Fr route iton • thev , . , ■ last Scut l His numerou- the former Miss Emails San-j Monday morning July
m Sn- ter'a few «-pnon:*lty good and m, other fee« crops are promt mi? fr;„.n, are glad to know he der. daughter of Mr. and' before Yoon )
Garza expects to get about 40 brvie- of cot tor: this, .year, is again active
vi.,it with relatives.
LOCAL VETERANS VISIT
SAN .ANTONIO OFFICE
W. A. ADMINISTRATION
John J. Ingram of Taft
was a welcome visitor at the
War Assets Administration,
Veterans’ Branch, third floor
Transit Tower. San Antonio,
July 13, and discussed proce-
dures in connection with
veteran aerification by which,
veterans of World War II be-
come eligible to puretaaat
surplus war material* sola in
this region at a high prtort-
ty level.
SOLDIER IN GIRSSAWf
wants to m:m. from
FRIENDS m TAFT
Irs. R. J. Sanders.
Catching up again.
Pvt. Warren Wallace, who
is now statkmrt in Amber®,.
Germany, says he like* ft
fine there and weald like to
hear from some of his Taft
friends. His address is: Pyh
Warren WsSscs.
22.! Kq. Co 1st Sr,. fMh 5»1,
af*o 2. f-ssr* Pmumsmt,
York, H. Y,
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