Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1947 Page: 3 of 8
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Gift Merchandise
We have a splendid assortment of gift merchandise—
useful and beautiful articles choser. with a view of mak-
ing possible the selection of desirable and appropriate
gifts for all occasions. While our stock is large and
varied, we are regularly adding to our gift items.
Though Christmas is some weeks distant, you may
wish to .begin now to assemble items for Ycletide presen-
tation. Our stock in this department is both ample and
varied, thereby reducing delay, time and effort in mak-
ing gift purchases. *
G. C. McDAVID
“The Leading Druggist"
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College Station.—There was
a time, not so many yeara ago,
when the only way the owner
of a small stand of timber
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more people working on farms
the first of October this year
than a year ago.
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Magnolia Products
Road Service
'Phone 48
Timpson, Texas
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Timpson, Texas
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Newport Beach, Cal.—Wil-
liam Tallman, bucket in hand,
bailed furiously today to keep
350 barrels of oil a day from
flooding his house.
That’s all he can do about
the oil well which gushed up
in his back yard and, instead
of bringing him riches, threat-
ens to bankrupt him.
He can’t pump, drill, collect
or store the oil. A Newport
Reach city ordinance says so.
He can’t cap the well as the
city suggests; he doesn’t have
the *2,000 needed to pay for
the job.
He can’t let it flow down
the street; the city gets mad.
He can’t divert it into his
neighbors’ back yards; the
neighbors get mad. His own
yard is saturated.
“Every time I step out the
door I sink up to my knees in
a couple of thousand dollars
worth of oil„” he said.
The World War H veteran
brought his blonde bride to the
Bayside cottage last summer.
Everybody had forgotten
about the old well there, cap-
ped 15 years ago when .oil was
only 25 cents a barrel.
One night they heard a sort
of burping noise in the back-
yard. Tallman ran out and
sank into thick black oil.
Next day oil experts told
him he had a weil that was
producing 350 barrels a day,
all readily salable. At *1.50 a
barrel, that’s $525 a day.
“And all the mineral rights,
darn it, are mine,” he said.
He hardly had time to esti-
mate his fortune before he was
battling with the city council
over whether he’d make the
fortune or lose it.
“Something has to be done,”
be said. "That black gold is
running all over, and T haven’t
the money to cap it.
“Either the city will let me
drill, or else'let me cap off
this hole so I can stop bailing
out.” i
j until a big sawmill came his
jway with its logging opera-
j cions.
I Then came trucks and a de-
centralization of the sawmills,
so that the fanner could prac-
Itiee selective cutting and have
{some choice as to when his
timber went to market. When
the pulp wood market opened
in Texas people in the Piney
Woods had another outlet and
another opportunity to make
progressive thinning pay.
The farmer still didn't have
any way to use his timber on
his farm, unless he used some
poles for hen roosts or hewed
out railroad ties by band.
In 1929 C. W. Simmons
came to Texas A. A M. Col-
lefe as Extension farm forest-
er. His hobby was farm utiliza-
tion of timber and he rode his
hobby hard. Today there are
several hundred farm saw-
mills in the state and Simmons
and the Texas Forest Sendee
are finding that chemical
treatment of fence posts Is
very popular.
Up to now, Simmons says,
the farm utilization program
has been a hit-and-miss affair.
But a project recently set up
under the new Research and
Marketing Act, to be handled
by the U. S. Forest Service at
its Forest Products Laboratory
at Madison, Wisconsin, prom-
ises to develop many new uses
for farm timber.
The Forest Service plans to
study new ways of using farm
timber in farm building; to
develop new, inexpensive, eas-
ily portable farm sawmill
equipment; to find improved
methods of chemical treat
ment of fence posts and lum-
ber for longer life; and to de-
termine ways of making pulp
from hardwoods.
Also in the plan is the de-
velopment of new small-scale
methods of "hydrolyzing”
wood. iff that works, farmers
could convert waste timber in-
to livestock feed.
Simmons says it’s a iong way
off, but if even part of the re-
search pans out as he hopes it
will “it will move the west-
ward boundary of the Texas
Timber belt from the Trinity
to El Paso.”
Try to Say
It Fast
San Francisco.—A Univer-
sity of California press release
dared radio announcers to
tackle this one: “Westan baby
limas, resistant to root-knot
nematodes, and new early
maturing varieties of ford hook
limas wQl be shown at fall
’agronomy day. Westan is re-
sistant to root-rotting organ-
isms.”
FRED HUDSON
Home Furnishing
DuPont Paint
Building Materials
Hardware
CENTER, TEXAS
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LOST :S $5,000,000
College Station. — A little
time and trouble now, plus
some rotenone, can put Texas
cattle and dairymen on the
road to saving $5 million.
How? By spraying Tor cat-
tle grub.
Statistics show that forty-
two percent of all Texas cattle
are grubby. Grubby cattle
are discounted on the market
at about one cent a pound. The
total loss to Texans ih the cat-
tle and dairy business in terms
of milk, meat and leather
each year comes close to five
million dollars.
Most farms and ranches
cause their own trouble with
grubs. Extension entomolo-
gists for Texas A. A M. Col-
lege point out. Heel flies are
the parentss of grubs, and the
flies seldom migrate over half
a mile. So treatment for grubs
in the fall and winter will con-
trol the *heel fly on the farm
and ranch in the spring
Spray the backs of the ani-
mals with a mixture of 7 Vi
pounds of 6 percent rotenone
in 109 gallons of water at
about 30-day intervals in the
fall and winter, the entomo-
logists say. Rotenone dust can
be used on small herds.
Control now will help to
save feed next .year, too, as it
takes from 10 to 15 percent
more feed to fatten a grubby
steer than one free of grubs.
—THANKSGIVING-
ts the Holiday that’s
made in the Kitchen
long haw* i> the kitelim were as much ■
part of holiday fuhritin for Mather ■ the
traditional turkey- Today Mother cm bo
thankful, for modem GAS bar brought new
lysodom to her kitchen. The new GAS Ranges
buiit to CP standards cook factor, clamer,
and automatically — GAS water heeling
meows MORE hot water for ovary need and
silent, dependable refrigeration keeps food
fresh for the holiday table.
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Outnumbered 1,058 to 1,
She Isn’t Bothered
Salt Lake City. The rnale-
to-female ratio in the College
of Engiheering at the Univer-
sity of Utah is 1,058 to one;
But that doesn’t bother the
one female engineer-to-be, 24-
year-old Glenna Webb of Salt
Lake City.
The technical-minded ex-
Wave enrolled in the college
iof engineering’ because she
wanted to be a radio electrical
engineer.
“At first, the all-men classes
bothered me,” Miss Webb
smiled, “but I’m getting used
to it”
In the university’s long his-
jtory, only five women have
j been graduated from the en-
gineering school.
General
Automobile
Repairing
We are prepared to give
you prompt and expert
sendee on general auto-
mobile repairing.
Assortment of car parts
and accessories
Groceries, Cold Drinks
Candies and Cigars.
j MAGNOLIA PRODUCTS
| We invite your patronage
and will appreciate your
business.
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Crump’s
Oarage
Magnolia. Gasoline
Automobile Accessories
PHONE 842
L. A. CRUMP, .Prop.
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Beautiful Blond Oak with contrasting panels of
Australian Maple, or American Walnut combined
with Figured Butt Walnut V Matched to show the
fall beauty of the wood.
Huge Vanity Minor of plate glass with Hard
Beveled edges, etna large five-drawer chest and full-size
panel bed. Also available with cedar-lined Chestrobe
with full-length bevel edge {Ate glass minor.
Other numbers to select from, also
LIVING ROOM SUITES
9-peice Dining Room Suites—in fact
anything that goes in the home
Make Your Selections for Christmas NOW
FREE DELIVERY Special Price* to All G Pa
Watson & Watson
“The Friendly Furniture Store”
See Tom, “The Jolly Old Irishman”
CENTER, TEXAS
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Molloy, T. J. Timpson Weekly Times (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1947, newspaper, November 21, 1947; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth814524/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Timpson Public Library.