The McGregor Mirror. (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1933 Page: 1 of 8
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The McGregor Mirror.
AND HERALD-OBSERVER
VOLUME FORTY-FIVE
McGREGOR, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1933.
NUMBER 29
At a Meeting to be Held at McGregor Opera House Monday Night, Sept. 11th
7:30 o’clock, County Agent Miller ti>M Explain Wheat Reduction Plan—Gome!
How The Texas Farmer May Figure
On Wheat Production From His Farm
College Station. — Just how
the individual Texas farmer may
figure for himself on what terms
he may co-operate with the gov-
ernment in the domestic allot-
ment plan for wheat is described
in material just received by the
extension service from the agri-
cultural adjustment administra-
tion in Washington.
Suppose you live in a county
where the county five-year aver-
age of wheat production just
equals the county three-year
average production, that you rais-
ed 1,000 bushels from 60 acres in
1930, 1,500 bushels from 65 acres
in 1931, and 800 bushels from 55
acres in 1932. Your average pro-
duction for these years was 1,100
bushels and your average acres
60. Your domestic allotment
would be 54 per cent of the 1,100
bushels or 594 bushels, and this
would be your allotment for this
year 1934 and 1935 without
change. On this 594 bushels you
would be paid by the government
in the form of an extra premium
not less than 28 cents per bushel
nor more than 30 cents per bushel,
less the expense of local adminis-
tration. You would receive from
$166.32 to $178.20, less local ad-
ministration cost, $118.80 soon
after September 15, and the bal-
ance about June 1, 1934. The cost
of local administration by county
wheat production control associa-
tion is estimated at 2 cents per
bushel or $11.98.
You would be free to sell your
wheat crop when, where and to
whom you pleased. If you have
already sold your 1933 crop that
would not matter. Your 1933
crop, however, must have totaled
at least you.r allotment or 594
bushels, or the amount seeded in
the fall of 1932 must have been
enough at average yields to have
produced at least this amount.
In return for these payments
and similar ones which may be
authorized by the secretary of ag-
riculture for 1934 and 1935 you
would sign a three-year contract
by which you would agree to re-
duce acreage as directed by the
secretary not to exceed 20 per
cent. Your three year average
was 69 acres, therefore you would
be asked to reduce your acres this
fall by not more than 12, leaving
you .48 acres. You would not be
compelled to sow as much as 48
acres but you would have to sow
enough to produce your allot-
ment of 594 bushels, assuming
average yields. Your three-year
average yield was 18.2 bushels per
acre, and at this rate you would
have to sow at least 32.4 acres to
comply with your contract.
To fulfill your contract you
would have to sow and farm your
wheat acreage in a workmanlike
manner, and replace the retired
wheat acres with no crops other
than those for soil enrichment,
prevention of soil erosion, food
for home use, or feed for live
stock to be used at home.
If you perform your part of
the contract the government will
pay you the extra benefits de-
scribed whether you make a crop
or not. The payments this fall
and next spring will be made re-
gardless of whether your 1933
crop failed or made. In this re-
spect the plan furnishes crop in-
surance.
To co-operate in the plan you
must sign a contract in the com-
ing campaign and cannot join as
late as next year. You must abide
by the contract the full three-year
period (1933-34-35) and failure to
live up to the contract will cause
the government to collect back
any advances paid.
The contract attaches to the
farm and not the farmer. If you
move to another farm the tenant
who- follows you must abide, by
the contract. If you move to a
farm where a contract is in force
you must abide by it. Landlords
and tenants share in benefits in
exact proportion to their rental
agreements.
In the example given above it
was assumed that you live in a
county where the three-year, aver-
age wheat production was the
same as the average county five-
year production. If you happen
to live in a county where wheat
acreage has been increasing and
the three-year average for 1930-
31-32 is higher than the county
five-year average, your allotment
would be reduced in proportion.
On the other hand if wheat acre-
age has been decreasing in your
county and the three-year aver-
age is lower than the five-year
average your allotment would be
increased in proportion.
More detail explanation of the
workings of the plan, especially
on how county wheat production
control associations are to be or-
ganized and how they will ad-
just individual farm allotments,
may be obtained from local coun-
ty agents.
SATURDAY A BIG DAY
FOR LOCAL MERCHANTS
LIKE DAYS TO FOLLOW
Times are getting better, busi-
ness is improving, cotton picking
giving hundreds employment and
everyone is looking forward to a
brighter future.
Last Saturday was a reminder
of what McGregor was a few years
back, when crops were sure and
everybody had plenty .of money.
The people began to come to town
early Saturday morning and stay-
ed until a late hour Saturday
night. Merchants report a splen-
did business and one of the best
days within the past two years.
Saturday brought back by-gone
days when the streets of McGre-
gor would be crowded every day,
and everybody buying groceries,
dry goods, etc. Those days are
sure to come again, and now
seems to be the beginning.
There is no use going to a larg-
er town to buy supplies, thinking
perhaps you can saye money, for
merchants in McGregor will not
be undersold, no matter what you
wish to buy, whether it be gro-
ceries, dry goods, hardware, fur-
niture, drugs, these items can all
be bought in McGregor just as
cheap as you can buy them else-
where.
Trade in McGregor this fall and
be convinced that by patronizing
merchants here, you can really
save money, and at the same
time, buy only quality merchan-
dise.
BUSINESS
IS
BETTER
That cherished phrase, “Business is Better’’ is again being
heard throughout the land ... It emanates from many branches
of business and industry* and marks an actual turn into better
days . . . Public confidence is being restored and the people
as a whole are in the mood to go ahead ... As an individual,
are you making plans to create a place for yourself in the
new order of business? ... If so we feel that we can serve you
in a highly efficient manner. We solicit your patronage.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
McGREGOR, TEXAS
“A GOOD BANK SINCE 1889 ”
FREE CHICKENS SATURDAY
SOME WITH EXTRA PRIZES
BE ON HAND—GET ONE
The McGregor Chamber of
Commerce has arranged a little
free entertainment for Saturday
afternoon which promises to be
both interesting and amusing.
A number of live chickens will
be dropped one by one from the
top of the First National Bank
building and will be absolutely
tree to those who catch them.
Several of 'these chickens will
have a prize attached to the leg,
among, which will be a One Dol-
lar Bill.
COTTON GINNED HERE
THIS YEAR AHEAD SAME
TIME LAST YEAR
CHAS. KERMIT WELCH
DIED SUDDENLY TUESDAY
HEART TROUBLE CAUSE
HUBERT PRICE RABORN
BITTEN BY RATTLESNAKE
DIED FEW HOURS LATER
MEETING MONDAY NIGHT TO
EXPLAIN WHEAT REDUCTION
AT OPERA HOUSE—COME!
Next Monday night, every farm-
er in this Section, and all others
interested, are urged to be pres-
ent at the Opera House, 7:30 p.
m. to hear the wheat reduction
plan discussed. County Agent
Miller will present detailed ex-
planation of the workings of the
plan, especially on how county
wheat production control associa-
tions are to be organized and how
they will adjust individual farm
allotments. There is around
$15,000 allotted to this county
and it is stated that approximate-
ly nine tenths of the amount ef-
fects McGregor. Farmers, don’t
fail to be present Monday night.
Last Friday morning while Hu-
bert Price Raborn, age 10, was
picking cotton for his father on
the Pat Neff farm, better known
as Boyd farm, 14 miles southwest
of McGregor on the Leon river,
he was bitten by a diamond back-
ed rattler with nine rattles. The
bite was sustained on the right
leg, just above the knee. The
snake was killed by his ^brothers,
who were in the field with him
at the time of the accident.
The young fellow was rushed
to Gatesville and given a serum.
Later he was brought to Oglesby,
where he died in the afternoon at
3 o’clock.
Funeral services were held at
the McGregor cemetery Saturday
afternoon at 4 o’clock, Rev. Char-
les Cluck officiating, Lee under-
takers in charge.
Besides the father and mother,
Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Raborn, five
brothers and one sister survive.
COTTON REDUCTION CHECKS
SHOULD REACH McGREGOR
LATER PART OF WEEK
COTTON GRADE HOLDING UP
TO GOOD STANDARD
The weekly cotton report from
the United States department of
agriculture, Austin bureau, indi-
cates that cotton classed in Texas
last week shows an increase in the
percentage of extra white and
white cotton and a decrease in the
percentage of spotted and yellow-
tinged cotton.
The percentage of cotton under
7-8 inch in staple length remained
the same, while 7-8 inch and 15-16
inch increased in percentage, and
cottons one inch and longer de-
creased.
Local rains caused lower grades
in many sections of the state
where ginning is brisk. In dis-
trict 7, which includes McLennan
county, local rains accounted for
the slight decrease in the grades
of white strict middling and bet-
ter. Staple length improved gen-
erally, according to report.
District 7 includes McLennan,
Milam, Navarro, Rockwall, Trav-
is, Williamson, Limestone, Lamar,
Kaufman, Hunt, Hill, Hays, Bell,
Bexar, Caldwell, Collin, Comal,
Da1 is, Delta, Ellis, Falls, Fan-
nin, Grayson and Gaudalupe coun-
ties. This soil area is designated
as the “black belt.”
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Mrs. Paul C. Cuenod is visiting
in Fort Worth with her sister,
Mrs. O. M. Lenglet.
From all reports the cotton
acreage reduction checks should
begin reaching McGregor by the
latter part of this week. Several
counties throughout the state have
already received an allotment and
at Washington where the checks
are being issued at approximately
50,000 daily, it cannot be long un-
til every county in Texas will re-
ceive hundreds of checks.
The checks are being mailed to
the county and special agents for
distribution. Cotton option con-
tracts, where growers received an
option on government owned cot-
ton in addition to a cash payment,
will be mailed out soon from
Washington, it has also been re-
ported.
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AVERAGE PRICE OF
TEXAS COTTON SEED
IS $12.50 PER TON
Texas cotton seed prices, ton
basis, according to a Dallas News
survey made this week, range
from $8 to $18 in Northwest Tex-
as; $9 to $17 in North, $15 aver-
age; $10 to $18 in. Northeast;
about $11 in. a few sections of
West Texas, although sale there
limited as yet; $9.50 to $14 in
West Central; $10 to $16 in Cen-
tral and East; $10 to $18 in
South; $10 to $15 in Southeast
Texas. Average price for the
state is $12.50 per ton.
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METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday school, 9:45 a. m.;
preaching at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p.
m.; Young people’s meeting, 7:15
o’clock; Prayer meeting every
Wednesday evening, 7:45. We in-
vite you to worship with us in
these services.
Tonight, Friday the Methodist
young people of McGregor will be
hosts to the East Side Union of
the Gatesville district, and all
young people of the town are in-
vited.—T. G. Story, pastor.
The gins in McGregor, up to
Thursday noon, have ginned 1760
bales of this year’s cotton, against
560 bales ginned last year.at this
same time.
Cotton is coming in now at the
rate of over 200 bales a day and
the ginners here believe by the
middle of next week ginning will
be at the highest when they ex-
pect to gin around 300 bales per
day.
After plowing under hundreds
of bales of this year’s cotton un-
der the government’s reduction
acreage plan, it is the opinion of
the ginners that McGregor will re-
ceive close to the same number
bales this year as it did last year,
when around 6000 bales were gin-
ned here.
FOSTER CHERRY PASSES
THE BAR EXAMINATION
LICENSE ARE ISSUED
Friends of Foster Cherry were
congratulating h i m Thursday I
morning upon receiving his1
license to practice law in this
state. The license was signed by
F. T. Connerly, clerk of Supreme
Court of Texas.
For the past few years Foster
has been devoting his time to the
study of law, and in June of this
year, feeling confident that he
could pass the examination, went
down to Austin. In the class
were two hundred others, and out
of this number only 26 passed, [
Foster making one among the
highest averages. The examina-
tion required sixteen separate
phases of civil and criminal law,
extending over a period of five
days.
Chas. Hermit Welch, age 24,
son of Mr. and Mrs.. C. C. Welch,
who live six miles south, of Mc-
Gregor, died suddenly Tuesday
at 9:30 a. m. He was stricken on
the street and was carried to a
physician’s office, where he died
soon afterward. He came to
town with his mother, and while
he has suffered with heart trouble
for months, expressed himself as
feeling better than usual upon
leaving home that morning, than
he had felt for sometime.
Funeral services were held
from the Valley Church, eight
miles southwest of McGregor,
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30
o’clock with Rev. A. Loper offi-
ciating. Interment was made in
Old Perry cemetery near Moody
at 5 o’clock. Lee undertakers in
charge.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. C. Welch; two sis-
ters, Misses'Juanita and Adibelle
Welch.
GOV. FERGUSON WIRED
REPRESENTATIVE J. B. FORD
LEGISLATURE MEETS 14TH.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OPENED
LAST MONDAY MORNING
Lsat Monday morning at 8:30
o ’clock the McGregor schools
were opened to the students and
another nine months of school
work began.
The attendance for opening day
was very gratifying, in spite of
the busy times which usually
keep so many children out of
School for the first few weeks.
The faculty is well pleased with
the prospects of a successful year
in all departments and look for-
ward to a j^ear with few hind-
rances.
Representative J. B. Ford of this
city received a wire from Gov-
ernor Ferguson Thursday noon,
that the legislature would be call-
ed in extra session on Thursday,
September 14.
The legislature will consider
legislation necessary for the is-
suance of state bonds, proceeds
of which would be used in reliev-
ing distress caused by unemploy-
ment. A proposal to amend the
constitution to permit the issu-
ance of bonds not to exceed $20,-
000,000 was approved by the vot-
ers in a special election on Aug.
26.
Other subjects also are expect-
ed to be opened up to the legisla-
ture for considering, including a
proposed sales tax and modifica-
tion of the anti-trust laws.
CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
The Mirror has been requested
to . announce that Rev. Morgan
Baker of Waxahachie, will preach
at the Central Presbyterian
church Sunday, Sept. 10, at the
eleven o’clock hour. Through a
mistake it was announced in the
Mirror last week that he would
be here last Sunday.
Come and hear him next Sun-
day.
General Johnson Asserts Drive Not
Boycott But Stresses “The Duty of
All to Protect Those Who Co-Operate”
“There is no thought, of boy-
cott here,” Administrator Hugh
S. Johnson said in an address at
the opening season of the hear-
ings on the retail merchants code,
and with special emphasis. “We
have provided machinery here in
Washington to take care of peo-
ple who find the grade too steep
for them. But when we find a
man chiseling behind the blue
eagle we are going to step in
and take that eagle in such a way
that the entire world will know
it. That is only our simple and
just duty to those high-minded
citizens who are earnestly trying
to pull this great country out of
the depression. We are building
up our case against cheaters, and
when we move against them it
will mean their economic death.”
General Johnson stressed “the
duty of us here to protect those
who co-operate and make sacri-
fices by investigating in re-em-
ployment to lift buying power.”
“The lesson learned during the
war was that of whole-hearted
co-operation toward great nation-
al ends. In approaching the
fourth anniversary of depression,
with both state and individual re-
lief funds nearing the vanishing
point, this country, with all of its
vast resources, cannot sit still and
allow drift and despair to rule.
No nation, not even our own can
continue to support nearly 40,-
000,000' people in destitution.”
He explained the attitude of
NRA as to prices. “Such seasoned
campaigners as you retailers
know what price structure should
be in such a critical time while we
are restoring normal employ-
ment. You should resist advanc-
ing prices of manufacturers and
we will back you up within our
limits. That is our plain duty to
the public. Furthermore, it is the
law, and we are here to enforce
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The McGregor Mirror. (McGregor, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 29, Ed. 1 Friday, September 8, 1933, newspaper, September 8, 1933; McGregor, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth883355/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting McGinley Memorial Public Library.