The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, April 15, 1949 Page: 8 of 10
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Saturday, April 23 - - - 2 p.m.
Demonstration of
^NewSpray Machine
for Control of—
Cotton Insects - Weeds - Grasshoppers
M. K. Bradstreet Jr.
Clifton, Texas
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INTERSTATE CONSTRUCTION
MATERIAL CO.
VALLEY MILLS, TEXAS
gfation , .
me for an election in Clifton Inde-
pendent School District of this
county on the question of authoriz-
ing the said district to consolidate
with the Turkey Creek Common
School District No. 33, and No. 18,
Norse Common School Districts,
thereby forming the Clifton Con-
solidated Independent School Dis-
trict, of this County said petition
bearing the requisite number of
signatures of resident, qualified
voters of said district and being in
every respect in conformity with
law;
Now, therefore, I, 0. A. Hard-
wick in my official capacity as
County Judge of Bosque County,
Texas, do hereby order that an
election be held on the 16 day of
April, 1949, at City Hall in said
Clifton Independent School District,
County and who are resident quali-
fied voters of said district shall be
entitled to vote at said election, and
all voters who favor the consoli-
dation of the aforementioned school
districts shall have written or
printed on their ballots the words:
“For the Consolidation.”
And those opposed to Such con-
solidation shall have written or
printed on their ballots the words:
“Against the Consolidation.”
Dated this, the 21 day of March,
1949.
' O. A. Hardwick
County Judge of Bosque County,
Texas. *
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KRUEGER FAMILY REUNION
HELD AT HENRY ZANDERS*
A family reunion was held Sun-
Norse School House in Norse Com-, day in the home of Mr. and Mrs:
mon School District No. 18, and JM Henry Zander and family. A de-
B. Pierson Home in Turkey Creek | licious dinner was served. Each of
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School District No.. 33 of this
County to determine whether a
majority of the legally qualified
voters of these districts desire * to
consolidate the said districts with
the Turkey Creek, No. 83, and
Norse, No. 18 Common School Dis-
tricts, thereby forming the Clifton
Consolidated Independent School
District of this County.
Will Hanna, Pernie Rogstad and
Oscar C. Johnson are hereby ap-
pointed presiding officers of said
elections mid they shall select two
judges and two clerks to assist
them in’ holding the same and they
shall within five days after said
election has been held make due re-
turn thereof to the Commissioners’
the following families brought well
filled baskets:
Mr. and Mrs. John Bell and
Vivian of California, Mr, and Mrs.
Leslie Krueger of Ft. Worth, Mr.
and Mrs. Gus Krueger and family,
F. W. Krueger, Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Zander and family, all of Valley
Mills, Mr. and Mrs. Pat White and
James, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lange
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Huse and family, ^11 of Clifton.
All the 'children were present,
except one, Mrs. Karl Hayes, of
Port -Arthur.
DEAD ANIMAL SERVICE—
Free and sure. Call collect, phone
303, Hamilton, Texas. tfc
of Prevention...
fBOTS of just a few
1 ago would have been puzzled
above Illustration. But livestock
today see it as « picture of a routine
P .. vaccination of a calf to help keep him
producers and meat packers have a
aon- goal: to supply America with all the
ome, nutritious meat this nation of ours
And so at every step of the way—from
farm and feed lot to the tables of con-
-precautions are, taken to produce meat
: the best possible quality ... meat that will re-
the familiar round purple stamp "U. S.
I & Passed.” This purple circle, found on
important Out supplied by federally in-
spected packers, is the housewife’s guarantee of
good, wholesome meat.
§§§j Growing animals are subject to various ail-
ments. Meat, milk, wool and ether valuable by-
Price Balances
Supply and Demand
Dear Friends:
The Hpuse has had a busy week.
We have seen lots of activity on
the Floor, and have passed three
major appropriation bills, includ-
ing the very important appropria-
tion bill for the Department of Ag-
riculture. The House is -now ac-
tually more advanced with its major
bills than it normally is at this
time of the year.
The most interesting develop-
ments have occured, however, in
our Agriculture Committee. The
Secretary of Agriculture made his
recommendations as to an agricul-
tural program. His suggestions
were very long and rather compli-
cated. He is to return Monday
for questions. Until such time as
we have had an opportunity to fur-
ther study and clarify them, I do
not feel that we should attempt to
pass final judgment, but I feel
that you will all be interested in
knowing just what he recommend-
ed: ■
In the first place, he proposed
that instead of taking parity prices
as our goal that we work for what
might, be called a fair income sup-
port level. Last year the average
ner capita income of fgrm people,
including the value of home pro-
duced food' and income from non-
farm sources, was only $909, as
compared with an average per cap-
ita income for non-farm people of
$1569.00. He suggests, correctly, I
think, that we should try to bring
the income of farm people up to-
ward this income of non-farm
people. He proposed a new form-
ula instead of our well known
“parity’*. He suggests that we
take the last ten years, which in-
clude some of the highest and
some of the lowest farm prices, as a
base. Hfe proposes to undertake to
support farm income at a figure
which will assure farmers as much
purchasing power as they enjoyed
on the average of‘this ten year
period. He then undertakes to
calculate the price at which specific
commodities would have to be sup
ported in order to achieve this de-
sired income support level.
At the present value of our dol-
lar, and with present estimates of
production and sales this coming
year, it will require 26 billion dol-
lars to give our farmers as much
purchasing power as they enjoyed
over the ten year average. (This
is true although the average farm
income over the period has been
only twenty-one billion dollars, be-
cause the ' dollar will not buy as
much now as formerly.) This
means that each crop must bring
the farmer 1.25 times as much as
it did during the base" period (past
10 year average). Brought down
to specific items this means a sup-
port-' price of approximately 28
cents for cotton as against a present
support (90% of parity), of 27%
cents. Corn would be supported at
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products ... enough to supply a good-sized na-
In the first six weeks of the year
livestock and meat prices have
dropped with great rapidity. In
my 24 years with Swift & Company I have never
seen so violent a drop. On the other hand, I have
never seen prices start down from so high a level.
It is the law of supply and demand at work.
When the wholesale price? of meat—the amount
meat packers can get for it—go down, it means
lower prices for livestock. It always has been and
always will be that way. When demand for meat
Quotes of the Month
$1.46 instead of $1.42 as at present.
Wheat would lose seven cents.
Most other commodities, especially
milk, meat and poultry, would be
supported at considerably higher
levels than at present. Generally
tion ... are lost on farms and ranches each year.
increases, we are able to pay producers more for
“he prices Swift & Company, and
' Add to this the lost grain and grass fed to animals
which never live to maturity, or fed to unthrifty
livestock that gain slowly. Total dollar losses run
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into billions.
their livestock. The prices Sv ....
the other 26,000 meat packers and commercial
slaughterers, pay for livestock are governed by
what they can get for the total available supply of
meat and the by-products. As in the past, so m the
future, livestock prices will result entirely from
the balance between supply and demand.
The livestock producer, both by nature and by neces-
sity, is a true conservationist. He would no more
deliberately ruin the property on which he depends
for his livelihood, and which he hopes to pass on to
his children, than the manufacturer would deliber-
ately tear down the plant in which he operates.
A. A. Smith, President
- American National Livestock Assoc.
Livestock provides one-third of all the food energy
in the American diet, and 80 per cent of all the land
used to produce the nation’s food supply is devoted
Much has been done toward reducing these
losses. New drugs and chemicals, such as the
sulra3, ponicillin and phenothiazine, are conauer-
ing livestock ailments, pests and parasites.'But
some 6f these causes of reduced production and
profit are stubborn. To lick them will take in-
creased knowledge, cooperation among neighbors
and a constant watch for danger signs. But the
increased earnings which can result from these
efforts make them more than worth while. Pro-
duction cf h«*al'hy livestock is the only way to
keep the markets for the meat you produce sup-
plied and expanding. In solving your problems
your local, state and federal veterinarians are
good men to turn to for help.
S-Soda Bill Sez:-
R’» <* load idea to rave lough problems for a
brain/ day
Ctrl farmers and desk farmers both get calluses—
hut in different places.
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Let S Be For Things Seems to me that most
of us spend too much time and blood-pressure be-
ing against things. Let’s be for things. Let’s be
for freedom of choice and initiative. Let’s be for a
system which allows a man to choose freely his
own work, to make his own opportunities, to plan
his own production. Which lets him decide where
and how he lives; how he spends or invests his
earnings. Let’s be for our country, where a man[s
the boss of his own time, his own thoughts and his
own political and' religious beliefs. Let^ take a
good look at the rest of the world, then reverently
thank God, apd be for the United States.
Hope you have a prosperous summer, and we’ll
be looking forward to being with you again. Mean-
while, if you’re in Chicago, plan to visit us at
Swift & Company. All of us in the Agricultural
Research Department cordially invite you to drop
in for a chat. We’ll be looking- for you!
to livestock production. That is the story of a big
business, vital to all Americans.
Charles A. Buemeister,
Production & Marketing Administration—USD A
Agricultural Research Dept.
Saving MoTe Lambs
By Alexander Johnston, Wool Specialist
University ol Wyoming, Laramie
Because every lamb grown to
market maturity will now bring
from $15 to $20, lamb mortality
has become a source of increasing
loss. Lambing practices reflect
this. Open range lambing is de-
creasing. Pasture lambing i3 in-
EVEKY WEDNESDAY
DR. H. H. GERDES
Optometrist
IS IN CLIFTON
Office Next to
Tucker Insurance Agency
Eyes Examined
Artificial Eyes
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speaking, I think it can be fairly
said that the plan would result in,
higher farm prices.
The problem comes in financing
the program. The Secretary would
support the storable commodities—
cotton, wheat, corn, etc., —just
about as now, with , loans. He
would also use our existing acreage
control machinery. When is comes
to the non-storables, he proposes
that the income support standsrd
should be attained by what he calls
“production payments”. These pay-
ments are direct subsidies similar
to those used during the war for
milk and other products.
I do not w4it to say I know that
we can find some other practical
suggestion for the support of the
price of perishable commodities,
but I did suggest to .the Secretary
that we try to cover these prices
by a form of insurance like un-
employment insurance, instead of
a .direct payment from the Treas-
ury, which has so many ear marks
of a “handout”.
I don’t think our farmers should
be asked to depend on a government
“dole”. A laboring man rightly
asks that he-receive a. fair living
wage directly from his employer.
The business man asks that he
be allowed to make a fair return on
his money. The farmer is likewise
entitled to a living wage for his
labor and a fair return oti his .in-
vestment, and I hope we can assure
it to him in the market place.
Possibly by the time you read this
we piay all understand the Secre-
tary’s proposals more fully.
Central T4xas farmers will have
an opportunity to get first hand
information, four weeks from today
(May 6th) when Secretary Brannan
himself will come to Waco and
speak at Bluebonnet Experiment
Station, near McGregor. You are
all invited.—
Your Friends,
"■'* W. R. Poage, Cong.
Uth Texas District
LEGION AUXILIARY TO HEAR
MRS. GOODALL REVIEW BOOK
Mrs. V. D. Goodall will review
“It’s Greek to Me” by Willie Snow
Ethridge at a tea Tuesday after-
noon at 4 o’clock, April 19, at the
American Legion Building. The
review is sponsored by the Amer-
ican Legion Auxiliary.
The public is cordially invited to
attend. There will be a donation of
one dollar per person. Everyone
wishing to attend please notify Mrs.
Ole Seljos or Mrs. Frank Spangle
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Certificate No. 820
Company No. C-800
Austin, Texai
March 15, 1949
Board of Insurance Commissioneni
of the
State of Texas
To Whom It May Concern?
This Is To Certify That
San Jacinto Insurance Company
Nacogdoches, Texas
has according, to sworn statement
complied with the laws of Texas as
conditions precedent to its doing
business in this State, and I have
issued to said Company a Certifi-
cate of Authority from this office ,
entitling it to do business in this.
State for the year ending May 81,
1950.
Given under ray hand and my seal
of office at Austin, Texas the date
first above written.
George B. Butler
Chairman of the Board
Wm. B. Bertelson A
Bosque County Representative'^
San Jacinto Insurance Company
Cranfills Gap, Texas '
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DELUXE CORNED'BEEF HASH PATTIES
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Swift & Company
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1 can corned beef hash
• 2 tablespoons shortening
/1 cup thinly sliced onion
2 tablespoons flour
1 No. 2 can peas (2 Vi cups)
% teaspoon salt
Yield, 4 Servings
Melt 1 tablespoon shortening In a frying pan and brown oniqns
lightly. Sprinkle flour over onions and combine thoroughly. Drain
juice'from peas (approximately 1 cup). Add salt and juice from
peas to onions and flour. Cook until sauce has thickened. Add %
cup peas, stirring gently. Open can of hash at both ends. Push
hash out on 0 board. Slice In four portions. Brown bi 1 tablespoon
shortening in a frying pan Serve Corned Beef Hash Patties with
vegetable kivcDi
Alexander Johnston
creasing in favor. Bands of from 500 to 1500 ewes
are run in fenced separate meadow pastur e If spring
storms are prevalent, shelter sheds are provided The
ewes lamb by themselves with little assistance.
Shed lambing is popular, especially when July or
August fat lambs are desired. The lambing band ic
kept in a feed corral or small pasture adjacent to a
lambing shed. When a ewe lambs, she and her
“green” lamb are taken into the shed to an individ-
ual pen or “jug.” After a day in the “jug,” they are
put in a larger pen with others. Gradually, over a
period of 3 to TO days, larger and larger unit3 are
merged. From the shed these bunches go out to
green pastures or into feed yards until the pasture
grows. Under this system of almost complete-con-
trol, a very high percentage of lambe is saved.
The paddock system of lambing also is receiving
favorable attention. Ewee, after they lamb, are
transported from the range to the lambing shed by
trailer. After a day or two in the shed, a small bench
is made up and turned into a small pasture wjjtJh a
shelter shed. In a day or two, several small bunches
are merged and go into a larger pasture. This is re-
peated until at the end of two weeks or so, the sum-
mer bands are assembled.
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Baldridge, Mrs. Robert L. & Baldridge, Robert L., Jr. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, April 15, 1949, newspaper, April 15, 1949; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth797564/m1/8/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.