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January 12, 1945.
Dear Friends:
Before the discussion of the
President’s message dies down,
we will witness the Inauguration
of President Roosevelt for the
fourth time, and Vice-President
Truman for the first time. The
President has announced that
the Inauguration ceremony is to
he simple and inexpensive be-
cause of the great struggle in
which we are engaged. The cere-
monies will take place at the
White House arid not at the Cap-
itol as in the past, This will
make it impossible to accomo-
date the great throngs that usu-
ally attend and means that no
one will witness the ceremony
except those who receive person-
al invitations from the President.
of men can be employed. I think
that complete rural electric cov-
erage should rank up with soil
conservation and roads in our
backlog of post-war jobs.
In an effort to be helpful, both
from the standpoint of extend-
ing needed electricity to farm
homes, and at the same time pro-
viding a far-reaching post-war
development, I have prepared a
bill which I believe makes proper
provision for the necessary plan-
ning and then provides the need-
ed borrowing authoring for R. E-
A. to assure a well rounded three
years program of construction. I
think that such a program will
mean much to the entire country.
It will undoubtedly provide a
market for billions of dollars
worth o{£ eleethical equipment
| to introduce, but I am taking
it to the convention so that 1
i may get the advantage of any
suggested amendments before I
finally drop it in the hopper.
The War Department has ask-
ed that all next-of-kin of Army
men overseas report changes of
address promptly to avoid delay
should there be a receipt of cas-
ualty notifications. Such address
changes should be reported to the
Adjutant General, War Depart-
ment, Washington 25, D. C., At-
tention Casualty Branch. Both
the old and new addresses should
be given, together with the sol-
dier’s full name, rank, serial
number, organization and APO
number. Because of incorrect or
incomplete addresses of recipi-
ents, mure than 4.000 telegrams
of casualty notifications are Be-
layed each month. I sincerely
hope the War Department will
not need to reach you, but if it
should, I know you would want
to hear without delay.
With best wishes, I am.
Yours for Victory,
W. R. POAGE.
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I am going to fly to Texas this ^ ^ sold> and we are goi„g t0
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week-end to speak to the Nation-
al Convention of the Rural Elec-
trification Cooperatives at. San
Antonio. I shall, however, be
back in Washington befbre the
date of the Inauguration, on Jan-
uary 20th.
Many of our people do not
realize just how much the R. E.
A. has done for farmers all over
America and particularly in Tex-
as. We have come a long way
since R. E. A- began operating in
1936. At that time. only 3 per
cent of the rural homes of Texas
had electricity. The power com-
panies said it was not profitable
to serve them. Since R. E. A.
came into the picture, the power-
companies have decided that it
is not only profitable to serve
rural homes, but that it is profi-
table at a fraction of the rate
charged eight years ago. Fine
as our progress has been, it has
not been enough. The war made
it impossible to get wire, trans-
formers, etc. Now these supplies
are again becoming available and
after the war, we will have more
copper and aluminum for elec-
tric lines than ever before. If
we are but ready to go to work
-—if ive but have our planning
well done, the extension of ejec-
trie lines to every farm home
should be one of the great post-
war industries in which millions
need to do everything possible to
keep our industry at a high level
after the war if we are to keep
our people employed and our
country prosperous. This bill
does not provide that the Federal
i Government shall pay for this
program. On the contrary, it
provides no subsidy at all. It only
provides the credit needed by
farmers’s cooperatives to enable
them to build the lines they need.
They must repay every dollar,
and judging from the record,
they will do this without trouble.
Uptodate, the farmers’ coojis
have paid in as interest more
than twice as much as the' gov-
ernment through the R- F. C. has
paid out as interest for monev
loaned. This bill, like the pres-
ent law, would also authorize pri-
vate utilities to borrow on the
same terms if they wanted money
to build rural lines. In the past
very few private utilities have
borrowed from the R. E- A. be-
cause they could get money
cheaper from private sources;
yet many of them have complain-
ed that the farmer’s coops have
been receiving some kind of un-
fair advantage. All I ask is to
G-ive our farmers a chance-to en-
joy some of the comforts of
modern civilization. I believe
GROWERS RISK LOSING
FUTURE COTTON RIGHTS
IF 1945 ACREAGE CUT
INSECTICIDES FOR 1945
College Station—Texas gar-
deners will be able to make a
more successful fight upon de-
structive insects in 1945 because
no restrictions will be placed up-
on the permissible rotenone con-
tent of insecticides for the com-
ing agricultural season.
Removal of restrictions, which
were in effect last year, is in-
tended to enable manufacturers
to offeV finished insecticides
having a rotenone content which
they find necessary to obtain
adequate crop protection, says
Paul Gregg, entomologist for the
A. and M. College Extension
Service.
Last year manufacturers were
prohibited from marking a gar-
den dust containing more than
five-tenths of one per cent of ro-
tenone garden dusts should con-
tain at least seventy-five -one-
hundredths of one per cent of
this insect-killing agent to give
satisfactory control. These rec-
ords show further that the addi-
tion of an activator to the roten-
one dust does not increase its ef-
fectiveness in- controlling gar-
den insects.
County’s Rationing Board to Streamline
Rationing Procedure Designed to C u t
Down the Present Heavy Board Workload
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How much cotton will a farmer
be able to plant in 1946 or 1947?
That may depend upon liow
much acreage he plants in 1945,
says A. L. Ward, Educational
Director, National Cottonseed
Products Association, Dallas, and
this fact should be weighed care-
fully in planning acreage this
season.
Cotton acreage is not restrict-
ed this season, he points out, but
in past control programs “Acre-
age history” has been used to
determine a grower’s right to
benefit payments, loans and
other benefits under government
programs. Because future pro-
grams may also be based upon
acreage history, a grower may
endanger his future opportunity
to grow cotton by failure to plant
enough acreage in 1945.
“Is there any reason to ex-
pect that a grower’s future op-
portunity to raise cotton will not
depend upon his past acreage
history? Can farmers afford to
risk losing legal rights as cotton
producers in the future, when
these rights may be far more val-
uable than today, because they
failed to plant enough acreage
this season ?”
Ward added that some farmers
will not be able, due to condi-
tions beyond their control, to
plant as much cotton acreage
this season as in the past; and
this may endanger acreage goals
established by the War Food Ad-
ministration unless growers in
crease acreage where they are
able to do so.
“Because of the importance of
cotton and cottonseed as a war
crop, source of food, feed and
fiber, and source of income to
producers, it is highly important
that every effort he made to
reach these acreage goals”, he
| said-
HIGHWAYS
As soon as Congress makes the
money available, something like
$100,000,000 will be available for
surveys, plans and purchases of
right-of-way to implement the
largest road program ever under-
taken by the Federal Govern-
ment in cooperation with the
States. It is designed to provide
post-war jobs and to eliminate
traffic bottlenecks, create ex-
press highways between cities,
and better farm roads.
NAVY PILOTS
The Navy will step up its pro-
gram to train aviation pilots and
pilot candidates eliminated in
June, when the Cadet Program
had a cut-back, will be given an
opportunity to resume training.
Mr. Dunnan, chairman of the
McLennan county War Price and
Rationing Board, in an endeavor
to permit more prompt mailing
of rations to the public has in-
stalled a new streamline ration-
ing procedure designed to cut
down the present heavy board
workload. \
Under the new plan, all appli-
cations are to be mailed or pre-
sented in person to the hoard
office in order that they may go
before the proper panels to he
acted upon. Mr- Dunnam ex-
plained. All panels of the Mc-
Lennan County Ration Board
have certain times to meet and
all applications will he given
consideration at the regular
meetings.
Calling attention to the fact
that board members are all vol-
unteer^, arid not only receive no
pay for their services, but hav^
business of their own to operate.
Mr." Dunnam urged that no ap-
plication be taken to a board
member by a consumer. Such
action will only tend to delay
issuance besides taking up the
valuable time of the board mem-
ber.
Under the new arrangement in-
effect, all approved rations will
be mailed out, and the only ra-
tions which will be issued over
the counter in the future will be
those where hardship would re-
sult or in the cases of emergen-
cies or furlough rations for serv-
ice men.
To prevent inconvenience, the
clerks at local offices here sug-
gest that applicants try to anti-
cipate their needs and file their
applications for gasoline and the
other commodities a few days in
advance of the time actually
needed.
In order to serve the conven-
ience of the public, prevent un-
necessary consumption of the
time of the board members, eli-
minate the necessity of travel by
the people to and from the
board office and thus prevent un-
necessary consumption of gaso-
line and tires, and use of our
aged vehicles, we are placing
STVE applications in the hands
of all stove dealers, and forms
for all types of Gasoline rations
in the hands of all gasoline deal-
ers in MjcLennan bounty, and
SHOE applications in the hands
of shoe dealers in -the county.
It is requested that when you
desire to prsent your application
for any of these rationed commo-
dities that you procure a blank
from the local proper dealer,
complete, the application and
MAIL the same to the local War
Price and Rationing Board, 12th.
and Austin Avenue, Waco.
THE 4-F’S
Some legislation may be pass-
ed making the country’s 4,000,-
000 4-F’s work in essential jobs,
or go into special service units
in the Army to receive the
“more unattractive assignments”
Regardless of the efforts to ex-
pedite work-or-fight legislation
for 4-F’s and job-shifters, there
is certain to be considerable op-
position, most of which will come
from men likely to he affected
by the legislation.
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An American soldier looks at the body of a 6-year-old boy who was shot with
other children near Stavelot, Belgium by advancing Germans to still their
cries. The bodies were found when the enemy retreated, leaving this tragic
scene, perhaps the worst of its kind in all of war’s terrible destructiveness.
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