Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1954 Page: 4 of 16
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SW Bell Co.
For LaCosfe
Applies
Phone
Co.
Washington
Hearing Set
For Oct. 4
Two Years To Wait
NEW HYBRID GRASS MAY
SOLVE FEED PROBLEMS
___________ a new Johnson grass h>bnd, Troup of trustees including John
Q> has made application to the 1 which originally came from Ar j Bennett. Jr and Leroy nman.
Southwestern Beil Telephone
Co in Digs
Deeper Than
Fellow Men
And wfiat if yoor name i*
Gold, Silvor, Monoy, Coin or
Dollar?
TTwn maybe it's Hmo yoo
changed it; that is, if you're
a speeder.
If was pore conod.net,
of course, but Louis Coin of
Houston was the most heav-
ily fined man of the week
in Judge George H. Kim-
mey's Justice Court.
Patrolman A. G Dalton ar-
rested Coin for driving a
pickun truck 75 m. p. h. in
a 45 m. p. h. tone- Sent. 13.
The cost to Co n was S2\
ephone Co reach as far up High-
way 90 west as Macdona about
2--i miles north of Noonan and
about two miles east of LaCoste
The application was published
Sept 10. The hearing in Washing-
ton will be held Oct 4 to deter-
mine if the transfer of property
“will be advantageous to the
persons to whom service is to be
rendered and in the public in-
terest ”
Bippert said his straight line
rate for homes having the mod-
ern type phone is $2.75 per month
but for an old wall type phone
--
sion in Washington. D. C. to buy j ^v^dp^drouth-stricken Smith I [ofccrt J Kleberg Jr of the Ktpg j
the LaCoste Telephone Co from ;Tex*as rancj,eri coive their range I Tanch: Tobin Armstrong of th.j
Rudolph D Bippert of LaCoste. ; :ted problems. ! Armstrong Ranch: Holman Cart-
Trank lines of the LaCoste Tel- -The grass apparently «■ ';
ilounsh in anas that have little! “ ft ^ o ^
water ” <-a:d Dr C. L Shrews- Und.vell of W lduU Falls. Lon j
bury, associate director of the . HU1 rf Coitus _CtoBtj and |
Soutnwest Foundation for Re- • SeeugSon of the Quien
search and Education “It pro- Kanch
duces more tonnage than anything Dr Shrewsbury declared that ^
else »e know of. and can be eith if the new grass proved out. its .
_T grazed or cut and used as sil- seed would be «ade available to M&M Charles Monkhouse ha%e(
age or dry feed. ’ 1 ranchers in limited amounts unjust returned from
rhe grass. Sorghum Almum, is two years,
a natural hybrid of Johnson and He disclosed that three feet of
Sudan grass, has a
SS INCREASES
PAY CHECKS
The new changes in the Social
SecurityuLaw have a direct af-
fect lullpcrsons living in Medina
County, according to W. A Wat-
son. field representative of the
San Antonio district office.
One immediate result will be
an increase in most of the checks
mailed to 281 persons in the coun-
ty. At the present time $105,732
a year is being paid local social
security beneficiaries. But with
the raise m the checks received
in October, payments to county
residents will jump to over
5119.448 annually. Watson said.
Watson also noted that the re
tired worker will receive at least
a 55 raise and. in some instances
the increase will be as high as
S’. 3.50.
She kept a diary ot her telephone
HERE IN HONDO
V4M Clinton Taylor of West-!
““"j minister, Calif., are here this
*— ------ ------ Beaumont week visiting foe Ray Taylors
where they visited their son and lnd other relatives and friends
— ---------------— j his family, M&M Charles Monk- pj,ey p|an {0 jeaVe on their re-
tail huniri- oae row of the new grass was an(j MW baby daughter. 1 - • — *
__I Cl . fwutnnc . * ■ * » . i__ . .
auuou f,*—™,---------j I -------~~-- . UWUt tuu ITC» UOUJ u«-6----- | tUITl Uip Monday.
ant growth, and does not spread (.dipped and produced 5*4 pounds......* 1
__ A llL a lAkrtrAft fTeg CC . i , f A - _ gy-v w> ft A O « AO m n t A
its roots like Johnson grass.
"It has one drawback,
scientist declared, "in that like grass
other sorghums it produces pros- scientist added that Prof,
sic acid and is poisonous during. s H Morrison of the Georgia
dipped and produced 5>4 pounds A baby daughter has arrived M&M Merlin Heyen and daugh-
of green forage as compared to at foe borne of M&M E. W. Ho- ter Mary Lou. spent the week-
31* Dounds for common Johnson ward. Sept. 5th. she weighed 8*A end fo visiting his mother,
lbs., her name is Hollace Evelyn. Mrs Heyen.
HOW VALUABLE IS YOUR TELEPHONE SERVICE? »- —
we asked a group of telephone custom-;1 a; -
question by keeping a record of all the t " ' Vi - ] anJ 1
ceived for a week. Like others in tL- M-b pi*1
Littlejohn (above) was genuinely surnri-• : at'hmy*muc?ij
depended on her telephone service and how it'helped 3
through busy days. Altogether, Mrs. Littl made and |
ceived 58 local calls in the seven days and die estimates tkj
tliey covered a total of 345-miles ... all for a few pennies
SOUTHWESTERN MU ... A TEAM Of 27,000 TEXAS TELEPHONE IE0M
... AT YOUR SERVICE.
ANVIL HERALD CLASSIFIED
ADS BRING RESULTS
)C D idle «uu w ---° 3 n. nuiruuo ui ujc uevi
Business'0* flrst 10 da-vs of «rowth Uve'i StaUon reported it yielded ID to
15 tons of green forage per acre
Court Lets
Contract To
A. G. Bracks
ac-
it is “Xe5Si Soc*"should not be allowed
phones cost $4.o0 per month^ 1graze it untll it is 16 inches high."
Bippert said he understood Bell > Testcd at Southwest Research
would not jump the rates. Center’s experimental nursery
Hondo has a rate for straight slflCe Apry j ^ grass was first
lines of $5 per month, $4 per out at Georgia Agricul-
month for a two-party line and Experiment Station
$3.25 for a four-party line, plus A[ jj,e gao Antonio nursery, it
10 percent tax. The business rate ^-aa watered at the time of plant-
has been hiked to $9 plus tax. ^ since, and despite
Bippert said he understood a scant rainfall, has grown fast. Ini Commissioners Court has
man named Paxton from the Dal- early September, it stood six feet. cepted the bid of Alfred G.
las office of Southwestern Bell Co. high compared to 4 feet, 8 inches. Brocks. Hondo, general contract-
would represent the company in for common Johnson grass near- or b, give the district courtroom
Washington. He further said that by. a first class face lifting.
Bell intends to put in dial tele- "WTiile this grass may not be Brucks won contract for his
phones within a year after it takes th-; answer to all our needs ,ow bld of jg ^ over foe bids of
control if there are no complica- Shrewsbury asserted, “it seems G T wiifeerson 0f Devine AJa-
tioos. The "unattended ‘ dial good enough to study and observe mo Co of Hondo Brocks
phones would be operated through further It is the most promising Carlisle General Contractors
San Antonio, he said. of more than 200 different grass- q{ Uvalde CQurt met Mon-
Bippert decided to sell, he said.! os under test in the Foundation s dav Sept. 20 to receive the bids. I
while he could get a good price local nursery." I The contract and bond will be'
for his property He declined to Dr Shrevsbury explained that ^ a{ a laler date Judge Arthur
name the purchase price Southwest Research Center s ag- H Rothe sald Ajso< work wilj
I nculture program seeks to ^ be begun with 10 days subject to
! :l°p better forage for the u -|revjsjon foe judge noted. The
west by testing out new grasses wjU be completed within 80
, In addition to tho experimental startine
plots at San Antonio, the Founda- da; 5 01 starUng-
non has grass nurseries near Dal- "eluded in the improvements
las. on the King Ranch and in mil be replacing five concrete
the Brownsville area «ith aspha.t tile, removal
The agricultural program of the.0* tbe old balcony that once
Foundation is sponsored by a the jurors sleeping quarters and
_. more space for the court and at-
. torney w ith some revision in the
strict clerk’s office.
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LIVESTOCK
REPORT
Report of sales at Hondo Live-
stock Auction Wednesday. Sept
22
HORSES-Sold for Herman Ney.
D’Hanis 1 horse 1400 lbs. 2.50
HOGS-Sold for Tommy Amber-
-on. D’Hanis 11 hogs 2515 lbs
19 25. Sold for M. H. Burger. Hon-
do. 7 hogs 1400 lbs, 19.25. Sold
'or Geo. L. Davis. Kerrville 2
hogs 415 lbs. 19 25.
GOATS Sold for Joe Short. Ban-
iera. 1 nannie goat 55.50 hd. Al-
so 4 kid goats $4.25. Sold for
Geo. L Davis, Kerrville 1 Billy
goat $9.09 hd.
SHEEP-Sold for Buddy Hub j
hie, Medina City 35 lambs 1810 j
hs. 10 40. Sold for Buddy Groff ;
Bandera 1 ewe $5.50 hd. Sold for j
Burger Bros., Hondo 2 buck;
•;heep $35.00.
CATTLE-Sold for Roy Har* |
man. Yancey 1 Dunl Hof. 480
lbs. 514.25. Sold for F. D. Gar-
rison. Hondo 1 W. F. cow 800
ibs. 5.00. Sold for Greg Harde-j
man. Hondo 1 W. F Cow 955 lbs.
7.30 Sold for Raymond Finger,
Hondo 1 reg. W. F. Bull 1475
Ibs. 12.50. Sold for Clifford Bohm-
falk, Hondo 1 Roan cow 1 W. F.
Hef. Clf. $74.00 pr.
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McGahey, Fred. Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1954, newspaper, September 24, 1954; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth810609/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hondo Public Library.