Falfurrias Facts (Falfurrias, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, March 14, 1941 Page: 1 of 6
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Complete Coverage Of The Falfurrias Trade Territory
Dairying,
'attic, Citrus, Truck, Cotton, Peanuts
FALFURRIAS FACTS
ESTABLISHED IN 1906—BROOKS COUNTY'S ONLY NEWSPAPER
VOLUME XXXIV
FALFURRIAS, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1941
First Club Flower
Show Scheduled
March 25
Preparations were nearing com-
pletion this week for the first an-
nual Heart’s Delight Garden Club
flower show which Is to be pres-
ented at the suburban home of
Mrs. C. F. Hopper on Tuesday,
March 25.
The show, first organized event
of Its type in the history of Fal-
furrias, will take the form of a
silver tea, according to an an-
nouncement released by Mrs. F. L.
Vickrey, chairman of the club
sponsored event.
It was explained all flowers
must be at the Hopper home by
10 A. M on the day of the show.
Judging is scheduled to being at
1 P. M. and the event will be op-
| Max. 1 Min . | Character
Mai Temp. TempJ R. | Of Day
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51 07 Pait Cldy
8
61
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10
80
45 ---- Clear
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68
40 clear
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Commends Local
Schools
TERM EXPIRES
Wiml anil Sami
Damaging
A highly favorable report on the
Falfurrias public school system
has been received from the State
Department of Education follow-
ing the recent inspection by E. E
Cham ness, state supervisor.
Among the affiliated credits re-
cently added by the high school,
the following are listed by Mr
Chamness: journalism 1, public
_ , | speaking 1, applied science 1, book-
Farmers in the Falfurrias area keeping 1, Texas history i/2, chor-
al music 1, second year instrumen-
tal music 1.
apparently were divided as to the
extent of damage done to young
crops here by hard winds and
blowing sand, but evidence was a-
vailable that serious damage was
registered In some localities.
Hurt most, apparently, were
en to the public from 2 p. m. un- 1 cucumbers which had just gotten
til 10 p. m. j a start after recent rains and it
Any person desiring to enter
specimens in the show may do so,
Mrs. Vickrey announced She em-
phasized that entries will not be
confined to the club membership
and it is hoped an extensive rep-
resentation will i.e attracted.
Hostesses for the day will be as
follows:
2 to 4: Mrs. W. D. Holland. Mrs.
K. S. Lennington, Mrs. Clyde Bur-
dett.
4 to 6: Mrs. James Dawson, Mrs.
C. K. Russell, Mrs. A. B. Blake.
6 to 8: Mrs. T. R. Bennett, Mrs.
L. L. Crabb, Mrs. P. A. Hunter.
8 to 10: Mrs. Howard Behrent,
Mrs. Paul D. Hanna, Mrs. John!
Thomas.
The show has been classified
under he following divisions:
Division I: Single specimen—to
be displayed in milk bottle. Mrs. J.
Britt Dekle.
The supervisor had the follow-
ing recommendations to make for
improvement of the system as
quoted below:
4^ ^
NUMBER 41
School Census For i Completions,
Falfurrias District New Operation In
Started This Month La Gloria Section
Claud Williams And J. M. Al- Riley And Lafferty Wells In
aniz Appointed Census
Trustees To CountChildren;
Cooperation Urged
For Gas-Distillate Produc-
tion; More Tests Scheduled
In Wide Area
The duties of State Auditor, Tom
1. The school authorities should £ Kl"B</,slx,:(00tth fofur.’1 200 pfo“nd'
seriously consider building a gym>r' cndcd wtth the fa,lure of twn’
At a recent meeting of the board. Two completions, a new opera-
of education of the Falfurrias tion and a proposed new location
schools, Claude Williams and spotlighted oil development In the
J M Alaniz were appointed census Falfurrias area this week
trustees for the Falfurrias Inde-
pendent School District and the
work of taking school census has
already started.
The state pays a per capita ap-
portionment of $2250 to the Fal-
furrlas school district for every
child of school age who resides In
the district regardless of whether
the child is attending school or
not. Revenue from this scholastic
apportionment makes approx!
was reported that most of the a-j -^is 'volJ*d P°®jsl"|his nomination i>y Oov. W Lee O’- m it civ half of the entire school
creage will have to be replanted. | ble for the school to 'offer an ade-; D;,niel. King has had the distinc- budget and according to the State
although some farmers have in-1 nuate health and physical educa-j(ion of appotnted by two Department of Education this
dicated that they would not re-plon program. I governors and twice confirmed by I money is to be used for the sole
plant.
Tomatoes and watermelons also are becoming too small as the
were damaged but these plants | school enrollment continues to in-
are better able to withstand the
wind and sand which were prev-
alent during the past weekend and
the first part of this week.
A dry norther chilled the area
Wednesday night, further retard-
ing growing plants.
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studyhall and auditorium the Senate, giving him the longest
period of service In the auditor’s
office in the state’s history.
Fifty Questionaires
Sent To Prospective
crease. These might well be con-
verted into a studyhall and addi-
tional high school classrooms, and
thereby relieve the crowded con-
dition in the high school. The
grade schools are also becoming
crowded, and additional space
should be provided for these
scholos. An enlarged band room
should be built to provided ade-
quately for the ever increasing
band enrollment.
!\«w Church
Planned
It was announced this week by
the Rev. Milton O. Davis, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of
Falfurrias, that the church has
completed plans for the erection
of a Mexican Baptist Church on
congregational property In the
3. Some form of vocational work
Draftees This Week;ch
| It might be vocational agriculture
ROSES: 1 red, 2 white, 3 pink. 41 Three Replacements Schedul- aRd f ™ lnn„
yellow. 5 multi-color. ed To Leave March 17;Reg- / A program clock should be ln-
LILIES: 1 Easter, 2 calla, 3 glad- Grants Urged To Cooped Stall°d , ef°re th<? neXt
iola, 5 iris.
ANNUAL: Perennials. Blossom-
ing Shrubs, Blossoming Trees.
Division II: Potted plants. Mrs.
D. O. Sikes.
1 Ferns, 2 Foliage Plants, 3 Flow-
ering Plants.
Division III: Lilies and other
bulbous plants. To be displayed in
vase or bowl. Mrs. J. R. Scott.
1 Lillies, 2 Other Bulbous Plants,
3 Artistic arrangement of any
combination of lilies or bulbous
plants.
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Tlie Bi»; Broadcast
Presented Thursday
ate With Local Boards
1 year.
The new church will be a frame
structure and construction work
is scheduled to begin within the
next two weeks, it was announced
It is being built through the co-
operation of the Baptist Home
5. The school authorities are to ! Mission Board and construction
purpose of paying teachers’ salar-
ies.
Therefore, in order that the Fal-
furrias public schools may conti-
nue to maintain their high stand-
ard of efficiency, it ts important
that every child be enumerated.
Children born on or after Sep-
tember li 1923, and on or before
September 1, 1935 are to l>e Includ-
ed In this enumeration.
The school census has nothing
to do with any other type of cen-
sus held In the community or
school district and has nothing to
do with compulsory school attend-
ance. It is especially important
that every child who has Just
reached, or will reach his sixth
birthday before next September,
be enumerated as these are the
ones it will be most difficult to get
on our new school census roll.
A house to house canvass Is al-
Piftv aHrfittnnai miestinnaire;. bp hiRhly commended for the I will be under the supervision of 1 ways made, but In spite of the
splendid schools that are being the Rev. E. L Kelley. combined efforts of all school of-
w™r e &r eecived l^^rospective^dr a f- maintainPd
tees this week from which the
nex Brooks county quota will be
selected for induction into the na-
tion’s armed forces under the cur-
rent defense program.
Three replacements. Porfirlo
Gonzales. Bernardo Villarreal and
Victor Guerrero, are scheduled to
leave Falfurrias. March 17 to re-
place three men declared unac-
ceptable for duty.
The advantages which come to
a Selective Servcie registrant by
closely cooperating with his lo-
cal board were stressed t.hV week
in a statement by General J. Watt
An amusing and entertaining, page, State Director of Selective
program, entitled “The Big Broad-, service.
cast”, was presented before an
appreciative audience in the high
school auditorium Thursday night,
March 13, l>y students, members of
the faculty and outside talent.
Following Is the program rend-
ered, which in a large part was
impersonations o f r adio and
screen artists:
1. Practice Makes Perfect—Ca-
sey’s Swingsters.
I. Donald Duck—Leon Littlefield.
3. Seven Twenty In the Book—
Casey’s Swingsters.
4. Kate Smith—Gail Crow.
Horatio Q Bloomer—G e o r g e
Chesnut.
6. Frcnesi—Casey’s Swingsters.
7. Lupe—Celina Guerra.
8 Mr. Meadowlark—C a s e y ’ s
Swingsters.
9. Gloria Jean—Louella Proctor.
10. The Same Old Story—Casey’s
Swingsters.
II, Skit—Frances Smith and
James Leuer.
12. Cab Calloway—Nathaniel
Best, Jr.
13. Eddie Duchin—Hyman Tea-
gue.
Ferryboat Serenade—C a s e y ’ s
Swingsters.
15. Andrew Sisters—B ernlce
Morton, Ruth Rogers, Gail Crow.
16. Practice Makes Perfect—Ca-
sey’s Swingsters,
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Falfurrias Players
At Victroia Matches
In outlining a few of the most
important things for the regis-
trant to remember in his contact
with his local board, General Page
pointed out that the registrant’s
full cooperation not only speeds
the machinery of the Selective
Service System, but directly bene-
fits the registrant in a number of
definlt <-nd concrete ways,
('(operation Urged
•’Th'' Importance of Ihr regis-
trant keeping in touch with his lo-
cal board and immediately notify-
ing it when he changes his ad-
dress and moves from one place to
I another cannot be exaggerated,”
1 General Page declared. ‘The rea-
son for tills is obvious. The ’•egis-
trant who fails in this violates the
law, places himself In
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Rotary Chili Names jJJ’ E;Y«un? Starts
New Directors
-- According to information re-
Following tabulation of the bal- j leased this week by County Agent
lots after the regular annual elec- i Tom Lee Easley. a dairy herd dem-
tion of directors this week, the fol- \ onstration is being undertaken by
lowing were named to serve on the H. E. Young, local dairyman, in co-
board of directors of the Rotary j operation with the county agents
office.
Through the use of dairy herd
icials and the census trustees, a
few children who have Just reach-
1 ed school age are always missed.
p. . 6 , Therefore, any parents of ehil-
IlMIFV I IlMll stir’ll IHIl I dren who are entering school next
Ullll J ^IIUIIUII j September for the first time will
greatly aid the school in the mat-
ter of finances by calling the
school office, telephone number
102, and reporting the children or
by contacting either of the census
trustees.
The work of taking the schoasl-
Club of Falfurrias:
R. L. Schultz, Howard Behrent,
R. R. Scott, W. B. Wilson and M R
Noll. H. Lee Clifton was also nam-
ed to serve on the board and suc-
ceeds J. O. Norris who automatic-
ally retires and is not eligible for
a period of one year.
From this group will i»e selected
a president and vice president to
serve the culb. George Collins,
present head of the club, automa-
tically becomes a member of the
board of directors at the expira-
tion of his term as president.
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P. A. Hunter Plants
New Type Milo
The completions are the La Glo-
ria No 1 Riley, In the Brooks coun-
ty section of the new La Gloria
Field, which was finaled as a gas-
distlllate well with good produc-
tion and the La Gloria No. 1 Laf-
fprty in the same area, which was
completed In dual sands, widening
the field about a mile and a half
northeast.
It was relinbly reported this
week additional wells will be drill-
ed in this area but further inform-
tlon Is unavailable.
In the same field, La Gloria Op-
erator's Committee No. 2 8tolzc at
last reports was drilling below 3,-
182 feet.
Magnolia Petroleum Co. No. 1
Brethren Church, Brooks County
wildcat two miles south of the La
Oloria Townslte, is drilling below
2,450 feet.
Next test to start In the La Olo-
ria area will be in Brooks County
and will l>e La Gloria No. Alice
Corcoran, Derrick ts up for this
test.
Reports this week said Union
Oil Company will start a test soon
on the Chavana Bros, lease In
Precinct Three of Brooks county
but more detailed Information was
lacking.
A new location for the East Fre-
mont Field of Jim Wells county is
the Magnolia Petroleum Co No IS
A A Seellgson, in the A. Ramirez
Grant and located 8,810 feet from
the south line and 5,280 feet west
of the No. 13 well.
In the Kelsey Field of Brooks
and Jim Hogg counties, Magnolia's
No. 3 State-Marshall has been
completed for 204 barrels per day
and 46 gravity oil through a Vi-
inch choke with 650 pounds tub-
ing and 700 pounds pressure on
the casing. Five and one-half inch
casing Is set at 4,737 feet, the total
depth.
A new location for the Kelsey
Field Is the Magnolia Petroleum
Co. No. 4 State-Marshall, Survey
722, O C & S. F RR Co., and lo-
cated 933 feet due north of the No.
tic census will be completed dur-
— :nR month of March. All citi- 1 Kas well and 933 feet due east of
improvement records, 15 of Mr zpns arp urRpd to cooperate in get- {jle 3 producer.
Young’s best cows were numbered' Hng f’very child of school age on -xxx-
and the mik in pounds is recorded 1 census rolls,
at each milking. The entire herd
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of 46 cows is given identical ra-l J. G. HaltOITl Suffers
tions so that each cow will have! I—i„
equal opportunity for production. Injury 111 Cllli.nl
At the end of the 9o-day test
period interesting information on J G. Haltom, well known resl-
the average production of the 15
cows over the 31 cows should be a-
vallable, Mr. Easley explained.
The county agent pointed out
that every dairy herd in the area
dent of this city. Is suffering from
fractures of the right hip and
left wrist received in a 12-foot fall
recently and is l»eing nursed at
the home of his sister, Miss Sallie
P. A. Hunter, Brooks county
rancher, has just received for
planting 300 pounds of Texas Milo
from the Texas Agricultural Ex-
periment Station at Lubbock.
This milo is of the blight resls-
needless; tant type and is double dwarf in
John Louis Forsyth, Dickie Mc-
Intyre, Dick Hopper, Bobby Bur-
dett and Alice Winthrop will rep-
resent the Falfurrias schools at
the Tournament of Roses tennis
matches at Victoria today, Friday.
The young players will be ac-
companied by Mrs. C. F. Hopper
and Coach Robert Oiblin.
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NOTICE OF ELECTION
Notice is hereby elver of an
election of two members of the
board of trustees of the Falfurrias
Independent school district to he
held on Saturdnv. April 5. in the
hl"h school building. Election
jeopardy, does himself an injus-
tice and causes the Local Board
all kinds of needless trouble.”
The State Director also empha-
sized the fact that registrants can
save themselves—and their board
—much grief by exercising great
care in filling out the question-
naire for his classification.
“Every local board has an Ad-
visory Board,” he said, “and the
registrant who Is In doubt as to
how to answer any given question
.should consult this board and fol-
low its instructions. That’s what
the Advisory Board is for And to
advise him on any other puzzling
matter, a.^o.’’
“The registrant who believes he
has been placed in the wrong clas-
sification and wants to make an
appeal has at his service the Gov-
ernment Appeal Agent who is
charged with the duty of protect-
ing the interests of the registrant,
as well as those of the Govern-
ment, and to assist and advise him
as to the procedure In making an
appeal”
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D. McIntyre, J. O. Norris and F. L.
Vickrey have been named judges
of the election.
Mrs. W. D. Kincaid. Sec.
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height of stalk. The Lubbock sta-
tion has carried on extensive dev-
elopment of this feed and tests in
the past two years have shown its
value In Increased tonnage of grain
over the regular milo, It was ex-
plained.
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Falfurrias Athletes
At Border Olympics
Premont Chorus To
Present Program At
Mexican Presbyterian
The Mexican Presbyterian
Church of this city will conduct a
special service Sunday, March 16,
beginning at 7:30 P M., it was an-
nounced this week The public is
cordially Invited to attend this
service for which an interesting
program Is planned by the Pre-
mont Men’s Gospel Chorus.
The following program will be
presented:
Theme song: "Living for Jesus”,
by chorus
According to announcement re-! Opening with scripture reading
leased this week by the Rev. Paul and prayer by Rev J. A. Heman-
Accordlng to an announcement! D. Hanna, the board of Elders of dez.
released this week by the Rev. MU-I the Presbyterian Church has call- Group song by chorus: “My An-
ton O. Davis, pastor of the First ed a congregational meeting for chor Holdeth," “Tell Some One A-
can be improved by constant cull- j Haltom Mr. Haltom Is 75 years
ing of “boarder” cows, a practice old.
which will prove profitable to the--*xx-
dairyman in the long run. Presbyterian Church
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Baptist Union To
Start Here Monday
Meeting Sunday
Baptist Church, a Baptist Train-
ing Union la scheduled to get un-
derway here Monday. March 17,
and continue through F r l d a y
night, March 21.
District Missionary C. O. Carter
of Kingsville and Rev. and Mrs.
Joe Amerine of La Feria. win come
to Falfurrias to conduct the train-
ing union. Courses will be offered
for juniors, Intermediates, young
the membership of the church, to
be held at the close of the morn-
ing service Sunday, March 16, for
bout Jesus”. Violin music by Mar-
jorie and Joel Warkentln.
Oroup song by chorus: “The
Mrs. Q. A. Oce returrn i Tues-
day from a srveral days’ visit In
hours arc 8 A. M. untU 7 p. m. E.; Corpus Christ!
High school athletes who parti-1 people and adults, the pastor ex-1 above two items.
the purpose of (1) electing or re-1 Hand That Was Wounded.’’ "Wan-
electlng any elders or deacons dering Child Come Home."
that may be necessary for the be-1 Sermon by Rev. J. A. Hernandez,
ginning of the new church year In Announcements
April, and (2) to consider and a- Oroup song by Chorus: “The
dopt, If the way be clear, the budg-j Sheppard True ' Let Him In.’
et for the new church year, and ~
any other business related to the
plained.
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W. A. Stockton Gives
12 Volumes To Library
A gift to the Falfurrias High
School library of twelve interest-
ing history volumes by W. A.
All members of the church are
urged to be present.
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Dianne Kossbiel In
Spohn Hospital
cipated In the Border Olympics at
Laredo last weekend were Clar-
ence Bone, Dick Montz, and Rufl-
no Trevlfto. The Border Olympics
Is an annual event In which col-
lege and high school athletes com-
pete against each other for top
honors In their respective classes.
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May To October Set
For Range Program
Under the 1941 range program,
May 15, 1941 has been set as the
date for the beginning of the de-
ferred ^raring period in Brooks
County. This period will extend
over five months, or to October
15, 1941.
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Kenneth Follows of Keokuk,
Iowa, and Don W. Jenks of Hn«s-| the World War In their campaign | F. N. Miller, Principal Erwin
ton were gueris of friends here a for legislation combatting all u-,r a; . r.:" II.man Teague will
few hours Monday of this week. I American activities In If 4],
Mrs. Chas. Kossbiel and grand-
daughter, Dianne, left for Corpus
Stockton of this city was announc- ! Chrlstl last Thursday where the
ed by Supt. H Lee Clifton who latter entered 8pohn sanitarium
gave the title of the books as "Pro- for medical treatment after a
gress of Nations—Story of the week of illness here. Encouraging
World and Its People from the reports are being received here by
Dawn of History".
Each volume Is inscribed with
the name of the donor and the set
Is designed to teach the obliga-
tion of citizen: :p through a bet-
ter understanding of American 1-
deals and principles and to assist
the disabled American veterans of
friends here who are hopeful
an early recovery.
Schcol Officials To
Attend Ass’n. Meeting
Supt. H. Lee Clifton, Principal
I represent the local public ssfcaal
Doxology by congregation.
Benediction, Rev. H F. Relst.
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Auto License Sale
Abnormally Slow
According to statistics released
Wednesday of this week by Depu-
ty Tax Collector Al Lopez, the sale
of automobile licenses In Brooks
county Is abnormally slow this
year, wtth the April 1 deadline
leas than fifteen days hence. Up
to Wednesday of this week, only
69 passenger car plates had been
sold and the normal turnover is
approximately 500.
faculty at the regular meeting of
the Oulf Coast 8choo! Executive*
^sso^'aMon In Kingsville Monday
night, March 17.
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Mr. and K'~s. Marvin Lewis have
moved to Lan Diego where he Is
omnloved by the state highway
departaMBt.
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