The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 12, Ed. 1, Friday, February 2, 1951 Page: 1 of 8
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The Bartlett Tribune
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voi: 64.
Bartlett Farmer
Sells Cotton At
Record High Of 45c
A record high price for Bart-
lett cotton was received this
"week by W. R. Janice when he
sold eight bales on Saturday at
45c per pound. Bill Bartlett was
-the hmcr who paid the record
jhigh price.
The highest previous price
paid locally for cotton in the
memory of Bartlett farmers was
the 43c paid when cotton hit the
40c bracket for the "first time
soon after World War I. Cotton
at that time reached the peak
m 43c and perhaps a few points
id began a steady drop which
ltmued until some farmers
10 had refused 40c because
fey expected the price to go to
jventually sold their cotton
Jc. i
amehibering the experience!
others few local fanners held
Sotton last fall after the price
reached 40c early m September.
Mr. Janke was one of the few
exceptions.
Mr. Janke's sale may be a
record that will stand for a long
time since cotton markets have
been closed since Saturday and
there has been only spot trad
ing m the major markets since.
Markets were closed because op-
erators are waiting Ifor price
control information.
Tthe 1950 cotton crop was
short because of acreage allot-
ments and insufficient rain dur-
ing the growing season ibut oth-
er factors made it a prosperous
year for most farmers. The price
was good and harvesting costs
were less than in 1949 when the
crop was large and labor scarce.
eCBecause of the cotton allot
ments many farmers turned to
grain and raised a 'bumper crop
of maize and corn which they
sold at prices that enabled them
'to realize a profit.
Salado Girls Drop
Bartlett Girls From
Championship Race
Bartlett girls who started the
basketball season with strong
(hopes and good prospects of a
astrict championship had their
les blasted Friday night when
i defeated 1843 toy Sal-
is their second defeat
FSeuson.
nee Whitley led the Salado
team to its victory with seven
points to her credit. Velma Mit
ler and Dorothy Hill scored five
points each for Bartlett.
Salado boys took a one-sided
victory from Bartlett in the
second game of the evening. The
score was 41-21. Nixon Overby
was "high for the Bulldogs with
11 points while James Guess
tallied 15 points and Ehvood Sut
ton got 13 for the Salado Eagles
In the game earlier in the
week the teams split a twin bill
with Ft. Hood Bartlett girls
winning 56-21 andi Bartlett boys
losing a close one 34H3I1.
Cub Scouts Den I
Visit Austin
All members of Den I of the
Cub Scouts and their Den Moth
ers Mrs. William Daugherty.
Jr. and Mrs. Leon Holubec en
joyed a field-day Saturday in
LStin.
IThe group visited the Texas
lorial Museum Mansfield
ad the Coxiville Zoo. They
in Zilker Park.
scouts making the trip
bhn D. Mastrovich Jerry
My Gene DIHard Ted
JanJ!Plant wJych-
Bartlett Men
Attend Conference
The Third Rural "Church Con
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attended by Jdhn jHnke Hugo
won Alvin Knendrich E. C
Miller and Gus W. Soger pastor.
All are members ofSt. John's
Lutheran Church.
Hearl Attack
Claims Albert
Detwiler Thurs.
Albert H. Detwiler who had
been here only a short time do
ing farm work on the Mewhm
ney farm near Davilla was
claimed by death last Thursday
afternoon. He was stricken by
a heart attack while at work on
a tractor and was dead upon ar-
rival in town.
The body remained at the
Heartfield Funeral Home here
until Monday while relatives
were being located. It was ship-
ped then to Jefferson City Mo.
where burial was made in the
National Cemetery.
Arrangements were made
here by Mrs. Neva Downing a
niece who lives in Austin. Other
relatives live in Missouri.
Mr. Detwiler was born in
Missouri on January 6 1900.
Marcelo Estrada
Dies From Heart
Attack Tuesday
Marcelo Estrada 42 farmer
living on the Louie Bartlett
farm west of town was claimed
by death early Tuesday night as
the result of a heart attack.
Estrada was rushed to a Tay-
lor hospital in a Heartlfield am-
bulance following the attack
but was dead on arrival there.
Survivors are his wife and
several children.
Funeral services will be held
Saturdaj
Party Compliments
Delora Muehlhause
Delora Muehlhause was hon-
ored with a surprise slumber
party at her home last Friday
night on her fifteenth birthday
anniversary. Joan Friedrich and
Margaert White acted as host
esses for the courtesy.
A white heart-shaped birth-
day cake was encircled with var-
ious colored hearts.
Those present were : Charlotte
Henry Billye Jean Jones Caro-
lyn Crouch Sylvia Mastrovich
Sandra Thompson Delores Con-
way Eileen Sager Delora Meiss-
ner Joyalyn WuthriehGlenda
Thornton Frances Ann Holubec
of Granger Margaret White
and Delora Muehlause.
Social Security
Expert To Speak
At Farm Meeting
Mr. Eliott Adams of the
Social Security Administration
Waco will be in Holland on Feb.
J.B to attena tne i'arm bureau
meeting
He will discuss changes in the
Social Security Act which af-
fect agriculture workers.
Mr. and Mrs. Chester Haschke
and little son Glen pf Dallas
were week-end1 guests of her
parents Mr. and Mrs. B H
Muehlhaure.
BARTLETT TEXAS
T. A. Schneiders
Observes Golden
Wedding Aimiv.
Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Schneider
celebrated their golden wedding
anniversary Sunday with open-
house to relatives and friends
'from 2 p. m. until 9 p. m. They
have made their home in Bell
County for forty-one years and
have resided at their present
home place between Holland
and Bartlett for the past
twenty-eight years.
They were married January
29 1901 in Walburg and she
was formerly Miss Annie Teich-
elmer. Their six children and
families were with them to cele-
brate their anniversay. They
are: one son Charlie Schneider
of Val Verde and Mrs. Lee
Janke and Mrs. Hugo Wolf of
Bartlett Mrs. John Janke of Val
Verde Mrs. W. M. Eckerman of
Temple and Mrs. Carl Leschfer
of Walburg.
A lace cloth over gold satin
covered the dining table which
was outlined with gold satin rib-
bon. The three tiered white cake
embossed with "50th Anniver-
sary" in gold stood at one end
of the table and the napkins
were embossed in gold. Gold
colored cut flowers were used
throughout the home. Coffee
punch and sandwiches were
served to those attending. '
The bride of fifty years ago
wore i navy crepe dress and a
gilded corsage of gardenias.
Pictures were made of the house
party.
Rev. Gus Sager pastor of the
St. John's Lutheran iChurch
made a talk and their many
friends were present and
brought many lovely and useful
gifts. Over 1125 registered dur-
ing the day.
The daughters of the couple
acted as hostesses.
V. A. Expected
To Announce New
Dividend Date
Washington Jan. 28 The
Veterans administration is ex-
pected to announce shortly
possibly within the next week
the size and time of distribution
of a new life insurance dividend.
The amount is not expected to
compare with the $2800000000
which was distributed last year.
Unofficial estimates have
ranged from $400000000 to $1-
000000000. The new payment will be for
the years 1948 through 11951 pol-
icy anniversary date.
The V. A. has said thatho
applications will be necessary
for the new dividend in the case
of veterans who received the
first one.
But holders of lapsed policies
would be wise to apply however.
The new dividend payment
will be for all policies kept in
force at least three months not
necessarily three consecutive
months between the anniver-
sary dates in 1948 and 1951.
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
Sunday Feb. 4th.
9 :45 a. m. Sunday School.
10:45 a. m. Morning Worship
7:115 p. m. Evening Worship
THE METHODIST CHURCH
The Reverend Wilford V.
Bane Dist. Supt. of the George- j
town District will preach at the
Methodist Church Sunday at!
10:50 A. M. I
The public is cordially invited
to worship with us
Friday February 2 1951
Death Claims
Mother Of
Adolph Gerick
Mrs. V. K. Gerick mother of
Adolph Gerick of Bartlett was
claimed by death on Sunday
Jan. 21 at a hospital in Haskell.
Funeral services were conducted
at the Weinert Methodist
Church on Wednesday Jan. 24
at 3:00 o'clock with Rev. L. W.
Tucker officiating.
Mrs. Gerick was a native Tex-
an being born at Fayetteville on
June 2G. 1867. Her maiden nnmn
was Anne Kician. She was mar-
ried to V. K. Gerick in 1889.
They were west Texas pioneers
nnoiving to Ilaskel County in
1907. '
Survivors are her husband;
three daughters Mrs. Marie
Peters and Mrs. Annie Stulir of
Weinert and Mrs. Lili Bubela
of Old Glory; and one son
Adolph Gerick of Bartlett.
Johnnie Rafay
Injured When
Tractor Overturns
Johnnie Rafay received a back
injury and a broken right leg
when his tractor turned over on
him while at work one day last
week.
Mr. Rafay who lives west of
Bartlett was cleaning out his
farm pond when his tractor hit
some loose dirt and turned over
pinning him beneath it. He tried
to jump clear but his foot caught
in a chain. He was able to cut
the motor off and prevent the
machine from catching fire.
Farm Bureau
Plans Cotton Week
In Williamson Co.
Plans for a "Cotton Week ini
Williamson County" will be
made at a series of meetings'
February 5-8 in ten communi-;
ties of the county. Sponsored by
the Williamson County Farm
Bureau Cotton Week will serve
to place emphasis on the major
importance that cotton plays in
the county's economy.
C. E. McDaniel Field Repre-
sentative of the National Cotton
Council and County Agent Roy
Huckabee will be in charge of
the February meetings. Com-
munity Chairmen who will
assist in the organization work
are Paul Schwenk Taylor; For-
rest Brown Georgetown; C. D.
Anderson Round Rock; C. W.
Pfluger Jr. Coupland; Fred
Blair Bartlett; P. A. Waels
Florence Ralph Wilkes Gran-
ger; Ewald Riethmeyer Thrall;
F. W. Sheppard Hutto; and B.
O Goad Jarrell.
"Members of the Community
Cotton Committee will include
school superintendents Voca-
tional Agriculture teachers
Chamber of Commerce Man-
agers newspaper editors gin-
ners oil millers representatives
of Women's Clubs Home Dem-
onstration Club3 Agricultural
Committees Retail Merchants
Veteran Agriculture teachers
and radio.
The schedule of meetings is
as follows :
February 5th Hutto 2:00 p. m.
Round Rock 7:30 p m.
February 6th Granger 10:00
a. m.
Bartlett 2:00 p. m.
Jarrell 4 :30 p. m
February 7th Thrall 10:00 a. m.
Taylor 2:00 p m.
Coupland 4:80 p. m.
February 8th Georgetown 10:00
a. m.
Florence 2:00 p. m.
Firemen Elect
New Officers
Doyle McGlobhlin was re-
elected chief of the Bartlett Vol-
llllfpnr Ti'iVn Timi'ivfivioiil- TUn..ti
r?5ir wimn frr1! .. 4. -r n
purpose of electing officers fori he Sround ' Bartlett Wednes-
the year ahead. Milford Watson Ya' mor"1n? to kooP the town
was elected first assistant chief! in.I.n.e Wlth the rest of the state
incl Koy Stockton second assist -
ant chief. Ben Goss was chosen
as hose foreman.
Hurley Thomas was elected
nvnsiflpnf nf tio wmm i ai
fred Wacker secretary-treasur-!rS?hoos wore closed Tuesday
er. John D. Mastrovich was I rednesday and Thursday and
selected as mascot. Charlie' thercwere indications that they
Townsend is truck driver and
fulj-time fireman a't the citv
hall.
There are at present twenty-
four membersof the fire depart-
ment twelve of whom are par-
ticipating in the (firemen's 'pen-
sion and retirement plan.
Wallace Voight and Marvin
vjrniin were elected as new
members of the department.
College Students
May Get Chance
J
To Choose Service
j at BlacMand Experiment Sta-
rr ition at 6:30 Tuesday morning.
. The JrfnS department put Farmers who are waiting for
into effect Thursday night a the thaw that must come before
new program giving college stu-; they can tell just bow badly
dents a better shot at being their small grain crops are
assigned to the military service damaged- got a little encourage-
of their choice and it cleared up ment from the Blackland Station
a lot of confusion.
Students read last Saturday
that they could sit tight get
their pre-induction physical not-
ices be deffered until thev fin
ished the semester and still se
lect the service they wanted.
But they couldn't get any of-
ficial information on it. Mrs.
Elizabeth Cornick Bell County
draft board chief clerk didn't
have any. And she wondered
too.
After a week of explaining
and getting nowhere the De
fense department finally said i
Thursday its order was a little!
hasty but it took legal steps to
make the original order stick.
Defense Secretary George Mar-
shall had to cancel a couple of
inter-service agreements but he
made it all legal.
The aim of the order is to halt
the exodus of male college stu-
dents and to meet complaints
that thousands have Tost inter
est in their studies because they 'areas have been marked out on
expect to Avind up in the armyj district farms during late Dec-
anyway. " i ember and January. These wat-
Under the new policy college jerway areas have been shaped
students will be able to complete where shaping is needed and
their academic year and still en
list in the branch of their choice
provided openings are available.
Orders should be received
locally any time.
The new policy will take ad-
vantage of a section of the law
which permits selective service
to reopen the cases of college
students Avho want to complete
their academic year. This auto-j are 0f COurse proven grasses
matically cancels their induction adapted for this purpose. An-
order and gives them a right to0ther grass which is ordinarily
enhst. 'easily established from seed
It was emphasized ihowever and adapted for use in wide flat
that the device is not a sure-fire.' waterways on gentle slopes is
guarantee such students will
land in the air force or navy
however since the services will
take no more men than they
need. Both services recently
temporarily halted enlistments
because of limited training facil-
ities. Marshall had said college stu-
dents would be required to enlist
in the period beginning 90 days
before the end o?the school year
and ending 30 days prior to that
time.
Under the revised plan stu-
dents may wait until the final
30 day$ $ th school year to
make fcMfr choice.
No. 12
Bartlett Gets 13
Degree Weather
In Cold Wave
Sleet and light snow hlnnlrptnrii
l ".'""' "vun;u wiuz ireuzing
ram sleet and snow in the
worst storm of the winter. Snow
blanketed the ground by Wed-
J nesday night in Bartlett
minc 'De cl?sea "day unless
roads cleared up during the dav
Thursday.
Local business was at a standV
still most of the week except for
service stations where the anti-
freeze business flourished.
The lowest temperatiure re
corded by .L. W. Robinson was
IS degrees late in the morning
Tuesday. His records for the
cold spell show 18 degrees Mon-
I day morning. This dropped to
lb and remained there most of
the day. Early Tuesday the ther-
mnmnfn vonrl (111 lTvrvrA1 4-r 1Q
ter ln morkiris' a?dttYtn
rose to 16 for the rest of the
day. Wednesday morning it still
stood at 16.
The low of 113 was registered
where Dr. J. R. Johnston super-
intendent said that is iwas pos-
sible that the rough treatment
grains in this section have re-
ceived all winter from cold and
dry weather might have tough-
ened them to the point where
they could stand up under the
latest cold spell.
Predictions from the Austin
weather bureau Wednesday
were that a new but warmer
cold wave would sweep in out of
the north and squeeze badly
needed rain out of clouds' which
are building up in this area.
). . fy .1
LITTLE RIVER -SAN'
GABRIEL SOIL
DIST. NEWS
! A V 3
By Albert Steglich
According to Soil Conserva-
tion Service technicians station-
ed in Texas over 70 waterway
land conditioning started in
preparation for seeding or sod-
ding the areas to a permanent
type grass. When established to
a solid cover of grass these wat-
erways will serve as disposal
systems for run-off waters from
approximately 175 miles of ter-
races to Jbe constructed on 8500
i acres of eroding croplands'.
Bermuda and Buffalo grasses
King Ranch Bluestem.
"February and March are good
months for sodding 'grasses.
March is a good month for seed-
ing K. R. Bluestem.
Eighth Grade
Collecting Paper
Members of the eighth grade
are continuing their scrap paper
drive apd request that any one
having old newspapers or mag-
azines call Mrs. Wm. Daugherty
Jr. or Mrs Ben Goss.
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Ford, Robert C. The Bartlett Tribune and News (Bartlett, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 12, Ed. 1, Friday, February 2, 1951, newspaper, February 2, 1951; Bartlett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth76962/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bartlett Activities Center and the Historical Society of Bartlett.