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Complete Coverage Of The Falfurrias Trade Territory
Dairying, Cattle, Citrus, Truck, Cotton, Peanuts
FALFURRIAS FACTS
ESTABLISHED IN 1900—BROOKS COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
VOLUME XXXIV
FALFURRIAS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1940
.UMBER 28
Cattlemen Of Jim
H022 And Brooks
Hold Meet Tuesday
M;lls Bennett Ranch Scene Of
Two-County Meeting A t
Which Experts Discuss Pro-
blems Affecting Area
Forty ranchers (f Brooks and
Jim Hogg counties gathered at the
Mills Bennett Ranch west of Fal-
furrlas on Tuesday. December 10,
for a joint county beef cattle day
with P. A. Hunter host for the day.
Following a barbecue lunch, Geo.
W. Barnes, animal husbandman of
the A. & M. Extension Service, cut
out and compared bulls, cows and
feeder calves, explaining what the
packers and feeders want In beef
cattle.
Dr. J. K. Northway, veterinarian
of the King Ranch, addressed the
gathering on sleeping sickness of
horses in which h e eauti< ned
stockmen to exercise great care in
preventing a disease which each,
year takes a heavy toll in horses.!
He advised universal trapping and 1
killing of buzzards because of their
disease spreading tendencies.
The meeting was brougnt to a
close with a talk by L. H. Tash,
who is directing a mineral feed-
ing experiment « n the King Ranch
near Encino. Mr. Tash gave inter-
esting information on results ob-
tained in this work.
Tom Lee Easley and G. W.1
Brown, agricultural agents of
Brooks and Jim H< gg counties re-
spectively. cooperated in arrang-
ing the day's program.
Mr. and Mrs. L. N.
Porter To Observe
62nd Anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. L. N. P. rtei will
celebrate their 62nd wedding
anniversary next Thursday, De-
cember 19. Their grandson. Matt
O' uger of Pittsburg, Penn., ar-
rived this weekend and will be
their guests for several weeks.
Among those who were pres-
ent at their wedding, which took
place in Refugio, was J. E. Kel-
ley of Beeville wh<. was a visit-
or in Falfurrias Tuesday.
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Falfurrias Jerseys
Terminate Good
^ ear Records Show
Season Ends With Jersey Score
Of 83 As Compared To 82
For Opponents; Superior In
Al Departments
NUN’S LETTER TO FRIEND HERE BRINGS W. V ** ,illl. Former
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HOMB-STUDDEI) HORROR OF LONDON AIR l\ - .ister. Strick n
ft****** • • g • |
raid to quiet peace of falfurrias \t Aire Of 69 Years
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planning subscription to Brooks
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minded of the current Christmas
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A Webster's New University Dic-
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Bible is offered with each new or
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Either < ne of the premiums will
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$2.00 per year.
The premiums and the newspap-
er may be used advantageously as
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Payment may be made through
the mail or by personal visits to
this office and either a dictionary
or a Bible will be mailed to any ad-
dress in the United States on re-
quest and the payment of ten cents
in stamps or cash for postage. The
offer expires December 24.
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School Basketball To
Start After Christmas
Report On Mattress
Program In Brooks
Shows Cooperation
Plan Devised To Utilize Sur-
plus Cotton For Benefit Of
Underprivileged Farm Fam-
ilies In County*
The outstanding purpose of the I
cott< n mattress demonstration'
nrogram in Brooks county recent-
ly undertaken, has been to use
surnlus cotton furnished to each
low income farm family. Fifty!
n. nnds of cotton .and 10 yards of
ticking were provided.
Families who have been sleeD-
ing on poor beds, even on the
floor, now enjoy the privilege of
c- mfortablp beds Miss Nellie Cun-
riiff, county home demonstration
agent, who has supervised the
program in Brooks rountv has af-
fected closer contacts with many
PC'pie who need the Extension
Service.
The mattresses have been well
made and each community has
furnished a building in which to
make th°m. Fifty-two mattresses
were made in the two established
centers.
Those who received mattresses
fame to the centers in groups of
three to six and worked until
equally that number < f mattresses
were made. The county commis-
sioner’s court cooperated to the
fullest extent in this project which
could not have b^cn successfully
undertaken but for the voluntary
help < f local leaders in the com-
munities.
The following deserve recogni-
tion for their generous service:
Mrs. R Donohoe, Herbert Ran-
dolph, Victor Cantu, the county
commissioner’s court and county
judge: Silvestra Cantu. Rafael
Cantu and Jose Garcia Ramos.
The Surplus Commodity Corpo-
ration. Extension Service. AAA,
County Agent and others have
cooperated with the two centers.
Falfurrias and Encino, in the
mattress dem. nstration program.
Having advanced to the play-off
with Lyford in District 36-B com-
petition. Coach Wesley Martin this
week marked the termination of a
successful grid season by releasing
statistics for the entire year which
reflect the validity of the Falfur-
rias Jerseys' bid for recognition in
the district.
Following are authentic figures
in all departments of the game:
Jerseys Oppo.
Score 83 82
Yards from scrim. 1328 1136
Passes Attempted 105 98
Passes completed 3k 35
Yards from passing 458 430
Number of punts 69 62
Punt average 30 29
Interceptions 14 11
Yards by intercep. 58 108
Number of penalties 57 44
Tl. punt, k-off ret. 581 543
Number of Fumbles 30 29
Own fum recov. 22 15
The entire Jerseys squad and
Coaches Martin and Lloyd Ooff
were featured guests at the regu-
lar Rotary club luncheon Wednes-
day, December 11, during which a
football program was presented
before the clul> membership.
(Editor’s Note: The grim real-
ities of a London air raid and
the lien lc reaction of a long-
suffering people this week was
brought to the very doorsteps ol
Falfurrias with the receipt here
of a letter by a Sister of the
Sacred Heart Catholic Church
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Three Die In Truck
Crash Monday Nite
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Second Phase OS
Rat Drive Starts
Three persons, one identified as
James F< reman, 30, of Arp were
burned to death at San Manuel
Monday night when a lumber
truck and a second truck hauling
feed collided and burst into flames.
All were burned beyond recog-
nition.
The two unidentified men were
believed to have been htchhikers.
F> reman, an employee of the
Homer Sessions Lumber Co. of
Arp was identified through the
truck's license plate. He left Arp
alone with a load of lumber an
official of the lumber firm said.
The driver < f the feed truck was
taken to an Edinburg hospital.
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Red Gross Chairni’n
Thanks ^ orkers
from a Sister friend in the capi-
tal city of the British Empire.
The letter was written by Sis-
ter Ita > f St. Vincent's Orphan-
age, Will Hill. London. N W. L.l
Passed Bv Examiner
“ I know you will be surprised
to hear that we felt the first real
effect of the war on Saturday
night October 26 when our dear
chapel was struck by a bomb.
“At about 6:30 in the evening, be-
fore the raid warning was given.
Sister Bernard, who is Superior,
and four other sisters were saying
their prayers; before they had
time to move, the whi le thing had
happened. Sister Bernard received
a hit in her hip and one finger of
the left hand was fractured She
was removed to a hospital and is
getting on pretty well, but it will
be slow, as she is suffering from
shock.
•‘S"me one’s good prayers must
have been heard for me. as I had
only left the chapel five minutes,
and if I had remalnded where I
was kneeling, well I fear I should
not have i»een alive to tell the tale,
for the place where I knelt was a
litter of debris. The blast rom the
expl< slon demolished the piaee.The
bomb must have struck the altar, [
Had Served A* Head Of Poat
Office For 27 Years; Came
To Falfurrias From Fayette
County In 1904
Funeral services were held Tues-
day afternoon, December 10. at
3:30 o’clock for W. W Sloan. 69,
former Falfurrias postmaster, who
dl^d at his home at 12:15 P. M.
Monday, December 9, after a heart
attack.
Services were conducted at the
family residence by the Rev. E L.
Kelley of McAllen, assisted by the
Rev. Mllt n O. Davis, pastor of the
local First Baptist Church.
Interment was made in Falfur-
rias Burial Park under the direc-
tion of Allen Mortuary of Kings-
ville
Mr Sloan, who came to Falfur-
rias from Fayette eounty. Texas, in
1904, was apponited postmaster in
1912 and served In that rapacity
until 1939 when he resigned be-
cause of ill health. His health had
been poor for the past several
years.
Born Marrh 27, 1871, Mr. Sloan
was a member of the local Baptist
Church. Woodmen of the World
and was a 32nd degree Mason.
He is survived by two daughters.
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Production Credit
Ass’ii Plans Meeting
According to an announcement
released this week l>y Coach Wesley
Martin, high school intramural
basketball will be started next
week with the organization of sev-
en or eight teams captained by
1939 lettermen.
The teams will play a split
schedule, winners of the first half
to play the winners of the second
half for the championship title.
All high school boys are eligible to
participate. Play will begin after
Christmas with a one-week lay-
off for mid-term examinations.
A faculty teom will also be or-
ganized to play independent
squads. It was announced.
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Navy Recruiting Man
Here December 21
According to information re-
ceived here this week from the U.
a Navy Recruiting Substation at
Corpus Christi, a recruiting <fficer
will visit Falfurrias on the morn-
ing of Saturday, December 21,
Any person Interested in enlist-
ment or desiring Information re-
garding enlistment in the Navy is
invited to. visit the post ofllce in
t.ie r re noon at which time the of-
ficer will be available.
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Miss Sunbeam Northrup of Har-
lingen Is the guest of the Rev. and
Mrs. M. O Davis thfc weekend
Preparations are now under way
for the seventh annual meeting of
the stockholders of the Coastal
Bend Production Credit Associa-
tion in Robstown, to be heid there
the latter part of January, 1941.
This will be an all day meeting
for the purpose of hearing and dis-
cussing reports of the directors; to
learn the financial condition and
progress made by the association
during the year 1940: to elect a
director for a term of three years,
and to elect a nominating commit-
tee to serve until the annual meet-
ing to be held in 1942
The annual meeting is also to*
give members an opportunity to
become better acquainted and fam-
iliar with the operations of the
association in the nine county area
of its territory.
The association has been making
(Continued on page 6)
Recently completed, an extensve
rat killing ramoaign conducted in
Brooks eounty through the eooo-
eration of the Fish and Wildlife
Service, the county alert’s office
and the local chamber <>f com-
merce nffocted 18 business houess
and 33 hemes in Falfurrias, as well
as numerous farm buildings.
Records kept by County Agent
Tom Easley reveal that 139 pounds
ol poisoned bait were distributed
in the area. A fi llow-up campaign
is now being conducted and any
person interested in obtaining bait
is urged to make applicatii n with
the county agent. If a enod “kill”
was not obtained in the first drive
the agent should be notified im-
mediately.
Eleven pounds of poisoned grain
also was distributed for the con-
trol of pocket gophers and mice.
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Border Patrol Now
Numbers 91 Inspectors
Personnel of the United States
Immigration Service border pa-
trol's Lower Rio Grande Valley
units now number 91 men, only 14
short of the division's total
strength of 105. according to Chief
Fletcher L Rawls, in charge of the
Valley district headuarters.
The men are divided among 13
immigration border patrol sta-
tions In the Valley between Roma
in Starr Cunty and Brownsville in
Cameron County, from west to
east, and as far as Kingsville and
Falfurrias. the patrol’s “second
line of defense.”
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C. P. Rumph Named
Head Of S. S. Office
Home Guard Meeting
Set For Friday Night
Men between the ages of 21 and
55 years of age interested in be-
coming members of the Falfurrias
Hobip Guard are reminded of a
special organizational meeting
which will be held at the court
house Friday. December 13. be-
ginning at 7:30 P. M, under the
supervision of O. M La.safer. Com-
pany Commander, Capt., Inf., Tex-
as Defense Guard.
Appointment of C. P. Rumph as
manager of the Social Security
Board's field office at Brownsville
was announced at 8an Antonio
this week by James B. Marlcy. reg-
ional direct* r of the Board for the
states of Louisiana. New Mexico,
and Texas.
Rumph succeeds F. E. Wilson,
whose death occurred on Novem-
ber 23.
Rumph, who began his service
with the S' cial Security Board in
1936, was in the Washington office
of the Board until the latter part
of that year. Since that time, h"
has served the board as assistant
manager of the Fort Worth office
and mansyrer <>f the Galveston of-
fice.
Counties in the Brownsville of-
fice area include:Brooks Cameron,
Hidalgo. Kenedy, 8tarr and Wii-
lar.y
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Mr and Mrs O. V. Holmes re-
turned Wednesday fr«m Gonzales
where they were guests of Mr.
Holmes parent over the weekend.
Reporting a total of 202 mem-
berships obtained by the Brooks
County Red Cr< ss chapter in its
annual Roll Call recently complet-
ed, R L. Schultz, Roll Call chair-
man, this week expressed appre-
ciation for what he described as
unparalleled cooperation during
the enrollment neriod.
"Such support,” chairman Schultz
said, “is particularly gratifying and
timely now, r/hen national defense
reriuirrments are making such a
heavy demand upon the Red Cross.
The organization is making every
creoarati'ii for dealing eomuetent-
lv with the welfare problems of
men of the new defense army and
(heir families, besides expanding
all public health, accident preven-
tion, and ot^er services bearing on
the country’s preparedness.
"In addition, disaster relief and
community welfare and health
needs which the Red Cross norm-
ally meets must continue to be
met and provisions made for their
expansion. All these activities are
dependent upon Roll Call mem-
berships for their support.
“In behalf of the local chapter,
I take this means of expressing
profound appreciation and thanks
to all citizens of the Brooks chap-
ter who gave so generously of their
time and funds that the Red Cross
may be in better position to han-
dle its multiplying responsibilities "
Mrs. T. R. Bennett
R. A. McMullen
Howard Behrent
H. Lee Clifton
Erwin Brand
Miss Birdie McBride.
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Special Men’s Service
At Presbyterian
The sermon topic announced for
Sunday at the First Presbyterian
Church is one in keeping with the
Men’s Day plans made for that
Sunday by the men-of-the-church
organization.
The pastor will preach upon
"Christianity and Success". The
men’s organization recently plan-
ned to designate this Sunday as
"Men's Day" at the Sunday school
and morning church hour.
Sunday will also mark the com-
pletion of the first full year s work
since Rev. and Mrs. Paul D. Han-
na came to Falfurrias from Mis-
sion to succeed Rev. and Mrs.
James E. Moore who answered a
coll at Conn e.
\yhich is buried in the crater, and Miss Mary Louise Sloan of Wlchl-
the tabernacle was thrown out on ♦ » Falls and Mrs E. M Dryden of
the green where it was found whole Robstown, as well as two grand-
and entire on Sunday morning. i children. Richie Sloan Dryden and
“We had neither water nor gas Henrietta Dryden of Robs-
for a day or so, as another bomb j ,own nnd a number of brothers,
fell on the water main and put it bearers were D. H. Cox, Ed.
out of action. Three bombs fell in Rachal, Dr. C. H. Otken. R. L.
and around here, one a few yards Schultz, John Thomas and^ Lewis
away from the front door. How- Compton. v
ever, we have very much to thank j xxx
God for. as the boys’ dining room Tlirpp RLyc RllllllillCr
was not many yards away and at * ■ ■ ■ v x Hiu* minimi^
the moment the bomb fell 150 j » ■ i
were dining, or course, they too |(| (;!0!’!<1 r
g< t a shock, but they came out as j
orderly and In silence as if nothing | ■ -
had happened. I was one of the Three rigs are running in the La
Gloria field where Magnolia Pe-
troleum Company is drilling ahead
with rotary on their No. 1 D. O.
Maun in an extensive drilling cam-
paign planned for the coming
months in this field, opend in 1939.
In the sarfie field La Gloria No. 1
Ali.y was last reported drilling a-
round 5,n00 feet and the No. 1 Ar-
guelles of the same company was
below 1,750 feet.
In the East Premont field of Jim
Wells County Magnolia Petroleum
Company's No. 14 Seellg.son a mile
outpost for the field was at 6,802
feet running five and one-half-
lnrh casing. Last sand reported
was at 6,631-43 feet. Several have
been picked up in this interesting
well.
J. M. West Productii n Co. No. 1
William Ehlers, east of Falfurrias
in Brooks county, was abandoned
last week at 8,864 feet with 1.600
feet of drill stem stuck in the hole.
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Farly Xmas Mailing
sisters who took them to the air
raid shelter,
“Needless to say we all got a
great shock as our dear chapel,
community room and St. Bernard
dormitory ■ fflce are no more; the
heap of ruins is sad to see.”
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Farmers Approve
1941 Cotton Quotas
According to information releas-
ed by Ila Frances Darby of the
Brooks County AAA office, farmers
of the county approved the 1941
cotton quotas by a vote of 134 to
7 in the referendum heid Satur-
day, December 7
Results of the Brooks referen-
dum followed the general nation-
al trend which showed farmers
had approved the quotas by a ma-
jority better than ten to one.
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Chapel Hour Features Urged By Postmaster
Patriotic Program a^TTi.*» am
“Memories of 1918”, a special! "wk ^ Patrons of the Falfur-
patriotic program, will be present- ,las P0*'°fflce 10 w™p a" C!\rlst-
ed by the high school department "?as Plages securely and address
them plainly to facilitate mailing
chapel hours. Friday. December 13. and t T ‘ a
(today.. The pageant will begin *?’ H* J1**??, ?ha“SS.jLP2“
at li n’oinok ages anc* car<*8 at earliest pos-
sible date to avoid congestion and
Larry Casey, as the soldier, has deiay
the leading role, with Betty Bye- _
lat as the nurse and Dor thy Nell 4* A 4
Craword as the sailor. Ralph \ alentieil At
Others in the east are Dotty WaCO MaSOflic Meet
Bour, Carolyn Knowles, Dot Hall.
Dottle I.ennlngton. Marie Bennett
and Dicky McIntyre
All Legionnaires and the public
1> ci rdially invited to attend this
program.
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1940 Cotton Crop To
Exceed 1939 Harvest
The 1940 United States cotton
crop will exceed last year's harv-
est by one million bales and stand
only 700.000 bales below the ten-
year average, the Agricultural
Marketing service reports.
Fr> m this source prospects for
a yield of 12.847,000 bales Is re-
ported. exceeding the Departmnet
of A|rtcult«rf'i October 1 report
by 100.000 bales Factors responsi-
ble for the increase shown in the
November 1 forecast Include ma-
turing of late b"lls in the Carolln-
as due to unusually favorable
weather In October. This resulted
in an increase of I05.OOO bales in
the two states over prospective
production a month aiv> Fa?'ra-
ble weather boosted yield pros-
by 115.000 bales in Missouri. Christi
Arkansas and Oklahoma. Large |
crop outloi k in the five states quality, on the basis of cotton gin-
more than offset poorer prospects ned, is showing somewhat l>etter
in Georgia, Alabama and Missis- than at the same time in 1939,
sippl, the Agricultural Marketing the Service reports. A large por-
Servlce reported tl< n has stapled at medium
Oinning Is behind the correspond-, lengths, and there has been some
Ralph Valentien has returned
from the annual Grand Lodge
meeting of Masons which was held
in Waco last week., and which was
attended by approximately 3000
masons. Valentien was appointed
District Deputy Grand Master of
this, the 120th district.
Among the speakers was Rogers
Kelly of Edinburg who is Most
Worshipful Grank Senior Warden
in the state of Texas.
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Miss Cleone Dennis of Alice,
Miss Rue Fo"te. and Miss Edna
Sain spent Saturday in Corpus
Ing perl-vl of last year over much
of the cotton belt, but the crop1
h Increase in Ulr proportion stapling
T at 1 1-18 Inches and longer.
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