Refugio Timely Remarks (Refugio, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1947 Page: 2 of 8
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page 2—REFUGIO TIMELY REMARKS, Jan. 9, 1947
Swing Of Southwest
Farm Markets
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Cold weather late last week
damaged some crops and curtailed
receipts of most farm products at
•. southwest markets, according to
USDA’s Production and Marketing
Administration. Year-end dullness
prevailed and prices were generally
•unchanged from a week earlier.
Vegetables sold at generally
.steady prices under fair to good
demand at southwest shipping
points last week. Oklahoma and
Arkansas reported serious damage
to spinach. Lower Rio Grande Val-
ley fields escaped frost damage
through Friday, but sleet or snow
sharply curtailed late-week ship-
ments in Texas and Colorado. Cit-
rus fruit shippers’ holiday in other
producing areas encouraged buy-
ing in Texas. On-the-tree prices of
Texas grapefruit were quoted at
$7.50 to $12 per ton for white; $40
to $50 for Marsh Seedless Pink;
and $50 to $55 for Ruby Red. Or-
ange prices were mostly $15 per
ton on the tree.
Little trading was done in shell-
ed or farmers' stock peanuts last
•week. Department of Agriculture
national average price to farmers
was 8.89 cents per pounds as of
December 15, compared with 9.53
for November 15. Official parity
price remained at 10.20 cents.
Unfavorable weather conditions
in most southwest areas caused ex-
tremely light poultry and egg re-
ceipts last week. Friday’s prices
were very little changed from a
week earlier and demand continued
fairly good. Current receipt eggs
were quoted 36% to 43 cents a
dozen in Dallas; 38 to 41% in Fort
Worth; and 33 to 37% in Denver.
Heavy hens brought 22 to 24 cents
a pound in ‘Denver; 24 to 26 in
Fort Worth; and 25 in Dallas.
Improved demand for grain late j Aransas,
last week tempered holiday dullness
early in the period. Relatively
large receipts at terminals reflect-
ed efforts to move grain before
January 1 freight increases. Most
cash prices were slightly lower
than a week earlier.
Cold weather improved demand
for feed and hay. Millfeeds advanc-
ed slightly late in the week. Year-
nd hay prices were $3 to $9.50 per
ton higher than a year ago under
OPA ceilings.
Rice markets were inactive in the
last week of 1946, with most mills-
closed for repairs and inventory.
Department of Agriculture an-
nounced there will be no 1947 rice
marketing quotas or acreage allot-
ments.
Friday’s closing prices on mid-
dling cotton were around 50 cents
to $1.00 per bale higher than a week
■earlier, and discounts on-the lower
grades narrowed considerably. Fri-
day’s spot prices for middling
15-16 inch were 33.20 at Dallas and
33.25 at Houston and New Orleans.
Cottonseed prices were about un-
changed.
Wool advances of 1 to 3 cents
per pound, clean basis, were pro-
vided in the new Commodity Credit
Corporation schedule for graded
wools. Bag wools were advanced a
fraction. Foreign wools were eas-
ier.
| Cattle were generally steady to
> 50 cents and $1.00 higher than a
v week earlier. Medium grass fat and
short fed steers brought $17 to
$20.26 at San Antonio. The bulk of
medium to good slaughter steers
brought $18 to $23 at Fort Worth
and Wichita, and $19 to $24.50 at
Denver. Medium grass fat and
.short fed steers realized $17
$20.25 at San Antonio and Med-
ium and good short fed steers and
yearlings sold freely from $18 to
$22 at Oklahoma City.
Hogs’were uneven to higher and
sheep and lambs steady to strong
at S. W. markets last week.
Coastal Bend PCA
Schedules 13 Annual
Meeting For Jan. 20
POSSUM FLATS
'THE NEW YEAR GETS A RUNNING START!"
By GRAHAM HUNTER
The annual meeting of members
of the Coastal Bend Production
Credit Association has been sched-
uled for Monday, January 20, it
was announced by Chas. L. Han-
kins, Secretary-Treasurer.
The Association has brought to
a close one of the most successful
years in its history, and it is ex-
pected that several hundred will
be on hand for this annual meeting
which will begin at 10 a. m. in the
auditorium of the Migratory Farm
Labor Group at Robstown.
"This year’s meeting will be
streamlined”, Mr. Hankins stated.
"We will have no special speak-
ers”.
Report on the Association’s ac-
tivities for 1946 will be made by
officers with a barbecue luncheon
at noon. Members of the Associa-
tion will vote on one new member
of the Board of Directors. D. A.
Caldwell, whose term expires, has
been nominated for re-election. H.
A. Pearson of Bishop has also been
nominated for this vacancy.
During the past year, 162 mem-
bers have purchased $41,080 in
"A” stock. Th% Association’s state-
ment shows a total of $124,150 in
“A”, $129,385 in "B” stock, and
$102,111.54 in Reserves. A net pro-
fit of $7,7770 was shown at the
end of the year.
Officers and directors of the As-
sociation are Grover C. Impson,
Beeville, President; D. A. Cald-
well, Robstown, Vice President;
Lloyd Neumann, Sinton; D. E.
Jackson, Corpus Christi; John A.
True, Alice; Chas. L. Hankins,
Secretary-Treasurer; Harold L.
Teel, Asst. Secretary-Treasurer,
Edwin S. Brown, Field Represen-
tative for the Beeville office and
George W. Sutherland, Field Rep-
resentative for the Alice office.
The eleven counties served are:
Bee, Brooks, Kenedy,
Kleberg, Jim Wells, Live Oak,
Nueces, San Patricio and west half
of Goliad and Refugio Counties.
SHUCKS, GEORGE,
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FARM NEWS
L A. WEISS, JR., County Agricultural Agent
Hr. Henry Schubert on the Bob-
bin’s Farm near Bayside is plant-
ing 100 acres in hubam clover to be
used as a cover, grazing, and soil
building crop. This clover is being
planted on land where’ terraces
have just been completed. During
1946, 73,920 feet of terraces were
built on this farm.
King Demonstration Vetch
Mr. Willard King, farmer in the
Austwell community has a 30-acre
demonstration of vetch which is be-
ing grown for a soil building crop.
The vetch is about four inches tall
and is making nice growth and a
field inspection showed many nitro-
gen nodules on the roots.
Texas First in Turkey Breeding
In a turkey improvement plan
during 1945, Texas led the 23 states
participating in breeding improve-
ment work. There were 1,091 U.S.
approved turkey flocks reported in
the state. Minnsota was second with
411 approved flocks reported.
100 lbs.;
Frank W.
Otto Kenne, 300
Hartman, 450 lbs.
lbs.;
Those receiving Melilotus Indica
(Yellow Annual Clover) were: San-
tana Garza, 200 lbs.; H. J. Friday,
200 lbs.; and J. H. Adams, 100 lbs.
Farmers are taking advantage of
the few days of dry weather and
using their labor and equipment to
prepare the land for flax plant-
ing. Prospects are if dry weather
continues, Refugio County farm-
ers will plant their largest acreage
to flax this year because of the
high price for which it is being
sold.
far as the time of paying taxes is |
concerned. ... You can either file
a declaration of estimated 1946 net
income by January 15 and follow
up with a final return March 15
. . . or you can get the job done
early by making your final return
by January 15. If you do pay up
before January 15, you will not
have to make a declaration. The
final return by that date takes the
place of the declaration.
There have been a few changes
in the tax law that you’ll want
to investigate. If you are a father
who has actually employed your
minor dependents on the farm or
ranch, and paid them reasonable
wages, you can get tax deductions
on those wages that have been
paid out. This is deducted as a
business expense.
Dr. R. C. Fuson
Humble Lecturer
Houston.—Dr. R. C. Fuson, of
the University of Illinois, who will
begin a week of lectures on Janu-
ary 13 at Humble Oil & Refining
Company’s Baytown refinery, is
the third nationally known scient-
ist to participate in the "Humble
Lectures in Science” series.
Dr. Fuson’s subject will be “Spe-
cial Topics in Hydrocarbon Chem-
istry.”
The lecture series was inaugu-
rated by Humble last year for the
benefit of technical and research
personnel at Baytown refinery.
Preceding Dr. Fuson have been Dr.
C. C. Price, of the University of
Notre Dame, and Dr. E. R. Gilli-
land, of the Massachusetts Insti-
tute of Technology.
Last fall, another series at the
university graduate level was be-
gun which will continue through
the spring of 1947. These are lec-
tures on physical and organic
chemistry, being conducted by Drs.
F. A. Matsen and H. L. Lochte, of
the University of Texas.
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Engaged
Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Merka of Re-
fugio this week announced the en-
gagement and coming marriage of
their daughter, Theresa, to Loy
Cowell, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
Cowell, of Woodsboro.
NEWS ITEM.—Dec. 31.—Flax
to j holding steady at $7.25 Minneapo-
lis” Flax may be planted as late
as January 15. Contact us regard-
ing any surplus seed you may have.
ARCHER-DANIELS-MIDLAND
COMPANY
Ganado, Texas
Paul McClay, Manager
WALTER LOMAN
NOW OPERATING
CONOCO SERVICE STATION
Texas Food Locker Plants
There are now 402 frozen food
locker plants doing business in Tex-
as. A survey by the Farm Credit
Administration showed that Texas
was among the seven states in the
nation that have as many as 400
locker plants in operation. A na-
tion-wide count showed 8,025 food
locker plants in the United States.
There were only 2,870 in 1940.
Confucius says, “The best fer-
tilizer for any land is the footsteps
of it’s owner.”
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Electric lighting in a poultry
house can keep the laying flock on
a 14-hour working day, thereby
avoiding the winter laying slump.
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All farmers with a gross income
of $500 or more are required to file
an income tax return.
Refugio County farmers have
planted the largest acreage in his-
tory to winter soil building and
cover crops which includes yellow
annual clover, hubam clover, emer-
ald clover, austrian winter peas and
vetch.
Under the A.A.A. program, aus-
trian winter pea seed was received
in the following amounts: Ervin
Zabel, 200 lbs.; D. A. Kneip, 200
lbs.; R. M. Galbreath, 200 lbs.; An-
ton Strouhal, 100 lbs.; Tom Mc-
Donnel, 100 lbs.; Herman Schubert,
200 lbs.; Ben Schubert, 200 lbs.;
Arno Boenig, 200 lbs.'; Frank W.
Hartman, 900 lbs.; C. J. Heinlein,
100 lbs.; H. H. Olson, 1,000 lbs.; J.
G. Toland, 800 lbs.; R. W. Gilles-
pie, 400 lbs.; L. H. Heinlein, 300
lbs.; Wm. E. Howard, 500 lbs.; Al-
fred Voges, 400 lbs.; Otto Kenne,
300 lbs.; C. E. Moreland, 200 lbs.;
W. C. Pfiel, 1200 lbs.; A. F. Abney,
1,000 lbs.; Edgar Blaschke, 100
lbs.; Adolfb Garcia, 200 lbs.; Al-
bert Kenne, 200 lbs.; Mrs. Mary F.
Lambert, 3,300 lbs.; J. H. Adams,
200 lbs.; and Dr. H. H. Shipp, 600
lbs.
The following received hubam
clover under this program: H. H.
Olson, 300 lbs.; Santana Garza, 200
lbs.; H. J. Friday, 200 lbs.; L. R.
Bissett, 100 lbs.; Edgar Blaschke,
Accidents Don’t Happen,
They’re Caused
Approximately 18,000 farm peo-
ple are killed by accidents each
year and more than a million and
a half suffer disabling injuries.
During 1946 many farm accidents
occurred in Refugio County which
varies from small injuries to loss
of limbs. Farmers should make
j special effort to prevent farm ac-
cidents by straightening up around
the farm, keeping everything in
place, keeping machinery in good
operating condition, power shafts
should be shielded and machines
should not be worked on while in
motion.
Income Taxes—1946
The year’s farm operation is
coming to a close, and that means
you’ve got to turn attention again
to income taxes.
Any farmer who has made a
gross income of $500 or more this
year must file an income tax re-
turn.
And here’s a choice for you, as
Aldridge George
Funeral Service
Held At Beeville
Funeral services for Frank Ald-
ridge George, 43-year-old Beeville
attorney who died in a local hos-
pital Monday evening at 6:45
o’clock, were held at the family
residence Wednesday morning at
10 o’clock. Rev. Theodore Branch!
of Goliad, rector of St. Philip’s
Episcopal church, had charge of
the rites.
Interment was in Glenwood ceme-
tery, under the direction of Gal-
loway Mortuary. The pallbearers
were Cleo Ray, V. E. Kessler, Dr.
W. H. Jenkins, Reese Wade, Vivian
Bailey (Refugio), Hugh Grove, Dr.
Paul Moore, and George Burlew.
Mr. George came to Beeville in
1935 and established a law office
in the Beasley building. He had re-
ceived his law degree from the
University of Texas in 1930 and
had practiced law successfully at
Refugio in partnership with the
late Judge Turner Vance for five
years before coming to Beeville..
Many of his Refugio clients con-
tinued to employ him here and he
also had established a satisfactory
list of local clients when he was
drafted for minitary service in
1942.—Beeville Bee-Picayune.
Say It With
FLOWERS
Fill your home with the
fragrant beauty of flowers
. . they lend drama to your
table . . . cheer to every cor-
ner. They are the perfect
symbol of gracious living. Get
them here today.
REFUGIO
FLOWER SHOP
Phones: Shop 460
Nights 358-J or 351-M
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Jesse Ba'ley motored his broth-
er, Edward, as far as Houston New
Year’s Eve, when the latter was
returning to his studies at A. &
M. College. He also made a busi-
ness trip to Victoria Saturday.
STARBUCK BURIAL ASSOCIATION
Sinton, Texas Phone 162
For information call or write
D. M. Kelley—Refugio J. G. Toland—Woodsboro
J. F. White—Bayside
STARBUCK FUNERAL HOME, Sinton
On The Highway
Refugio j
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It will be a pleasure for me to serve you and
service your car. Drive in today or anytime.
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JEWELERS
gifts that will reflect your
thoughtfulness for years to
come. Reasonable prices are
another feature at this
store.
CHARLEY’S
JEWELRY
STORE
REFUGIO, TEXAS
— Repair Service —
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FOR A HAPPIER BIRTHDAY
Make her birthday especially memorable by your
gift of flowers. Here you will find blossoms that
stay fresh longer . . . flowers that are rich with
glowing colors. Whether she is sixteen or sixty
she’ll thrill to these lovely blossoms. Place your
order today.
“Life Without Flowers, Is Life Without Sunshine”
DOT’S FLOWER SHOP
Phone 133 Refugio, Texas
KEEP YOUR
PANTRY STOCKED
Hoinemakers who pride themselves on the variety
and taste of their meals find the choicest values
here. You can always give your meals color and
appetite appeal if you make your selections from
our stock.
Pate Grocery
with Complete Market
SAYS BELGIAN WAR BRIDE
f “ Des facilites dont je
daura is jamais revePj
Cihe's still not entirely used to the ckerne in Texas weather from that
of her native Wavre, Belgium, but pretty Mrs. Agnes Restivo, bride of
ex-Army Staff Sergeant Sam L.
Restivo, is enthusiastic in her
praise of the convenience of living
in this land of abundant, low-cost
gas service.)
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* "Convenience I'd
never dreamed of!" says
Mrs. Restivo. "Sam told
me many things about the
South, but he never
thought to mention nat-
ural gas service. I guess
it's because he's always
been used to it—and has
just taken it for granted
without appreciating how
grand it is."
Yes, it's true . . United
Gas service is so depend-
able, so cheap, that most
of us seldom give it credit
for the comforts and con-
veniences it provides. It
takes newcomers like
Mrs. Restivo to remind us
of the real values we all
enjoy from our natural
gat service.
UNITE
NATURAL GAS . ‘ . THE BIGGEST BARGAIH IH^YOUR HOME'TODAY
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