The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, April 27, 1956 Page: 14 of 14
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The Clarksville Timas, Friday, April 27, 1956
Red River Courrt^
Soil Conservation
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District News
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Luther Rore'.l. Fulbright; J D. I
Jones, Detroit; David Jackson.
Greenwood; Hoy Garland, Anno-
na and Jim Fortner, Bogata
The week of May 6-12 is Soil 1
Stewardship Sundry, May 6, when 1
many churches will hold special |
services to recall man’s duty to j
the land During the rest of j
the week, most SC-Ds will present j
special tours, programs and field i
dayt to publicize District accom- •
plishments and objectives.
Texas has 172 soil conservation
districts which embrace 96 preeent
of the land area el the state These j
Districts represent the greatest 1
force — and the first organized, j
loca'ily-controlled force— for the
conservation of soil, water, plants
and wildlife.
Each soil conservation dis-
trict was organized only after
landowners of the area voted to |
have such a district. SCDs are
legal sub-divisions of state govern-
ment. comparable to counties and
school districts, but they have
no taxing power Each is govern- '
ed by a board of five supervisors
who must be Inndowners them-
selves and who are elected by
farmers and ranchers of the
District.
A soil conservation district helps
its cooperating fanners and ranch-
ers plan and apply conservation
measures on their land. Following
a master plan which was carefully
prepared by farmer and rancher
committees, each District works
toward the goal 01 complete con-
servation of all the land In’ the
District. Supervisors function as a
co-ordinating body to stimulate
and guide the efforts of local
groups and individuals toward ac-
hievement of the District goal.
Technical assistance is provided
by various agencies, such as Soil
Conservation Service, Extension
Service, Forest Service, and Vo-
cational Agriculture teachers.
Any landowner can become a
SOD cooperator by applying to
the board of supervisors. Becom-
ing a cooperator does not invo'ive
any financial obligation Texas
SCD’s now have 172.000 farmer and
rancher cooperatorb, and the figure
grows bv 15,000 each year. Last
year these cooperators cover-
cropped 1,180,000 teres and Stub-
ble-mulched 256.000 acres of Texas
land They controlled brush on 1.-
322.000 acres and had 6,963,000
acres under deferred grazing They
built 10,700 miles of terraces, 7,-
540 miles of waterways, built
over 10,000 ponds and leveled 74.-
000 acres of land for proper irri-
gation
District offices ire maintained
at Clarksville The district has
1410 cooperators.
Broiler Output
Zooms Upward in
Texas Since 1950
College Station — Back in 1950
Texas produced about 33.4 million
broilers. Two yenrs later the 50
million murk was passed and the
1955 production went to 79 mfdlon
birds. For the first 12 weeks of
1956 broiler placements are run-
ning 24 4 percent above the fi-
gure for the corresponding period
of last year, and if the present
placement rate should continue, the
90 million mark could be pased
in 1956, says Hermit Schlamb, ex-
tension poultry marketing specia-
list.
The specialist describes t h e
growth of the broiler industry in
Texas as phenomenal and credits
several factors as contributors to
the increase. Promotion by feed
companies, hatcheries, financial
backers and other phases of the
poultry has been ot major impor-
tance Secondly, scys Schlamb, the
enterprise in most cases has pro-
ved profitable and no great outlays
of cash or \and were needed to
launch the business. Thirdly, mar-
keting and distribution have been
of great importance in the expan-
sion. The product produced had to
be good and sell on a competitive
basis with other meats.
Broilers can be offered in many
usable forms in the market place
and convenience to the consumer
has helped the marketing end of
the business Too, points out
Schlamb, Texas broilers are high
in quality and can meet the com-
petition from other great produc-
ing areas. Breeders, hatcherymen
and research workers are credited
with great assistance on the qual-
ity phases of the industry as are
the feed manufacturers of the
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Hurry I Hurry! Hurry!
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ANNIVERSARY
LJ VALUES!
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state who are continually working
' to put out a more efficient and
effective ration.
The Texas industry la organiz-
ing to further promote the con-
sumption of Its produce. The Chi-
ckcn-Of-Tomorrow program and
the current Texas Broiler Festival
program are also cltpd as contri-
butors to the great improvement
made in the quality of the broil-
ers produced in Texas.
Jtist recently. »oys Schlamb. re-
search workers produced a pound
of broi'ier on 19 pounds of feed
and at the end of 8 weeks a
three pound broiler was ready for
market The specialist doesn’t be-
lieve broiler consumption has
reached the saturation point. So
long as the industry moves for-
ward and is competitive further
progress is assured, he adds.
Hunting Wildlife
At Night Costly
| Austin — The overhead for ille-
! gal night hunting in Texas conti-
1 nues to climb as justices of the
j peace levy substantial fines for
assorted nocturanal raids on wild-
life.
The director of law enforcement
of the Game and Fish Commission
| said the monthly arrest report is
j the bert evidence of the court’s
stern attitude.
F.lcven persons charged with
night hunting of doer paid fines of
$100 or more, p'us costs. Ten
others were assessed smaller fines
The costlier coses involved per
sons from Mineral Wells, Fort
Worth, San Marcos, Corpus Chris-
ti, Austin and Dasadena. Three of
the defendants were from Mineral
W'elis and two from Fort Worth
Fishing violations, however, in-
volved more than one half of the
266 individual prosecutions report -
| ed for the month One hundred six
l anglers were fined for lacking pro-
1 per licenses. A Fort Worth man
paid a $10 fine and costs for per-
1 mitting another person to use his
fishing license The same levy was
marie against the fisherman, him-
self
A Lubbock man was fined a total
of $70 plus costs on three counts
of using a hoop net, using an il-
legal trotline and lacking a license
BI.IND COIN EXPERT
High Point. N. C. —Blind
since birth, Roby C. Leonard, 50,
often amazes fellow members of
a eoJn-coflecting club
Leonard sees the coins with
his linger* Me has no trouble de-
tecting the tiny letters which show
where some coin® are minted, and
that he sometimes notices defects
in coins that other collectors over-
look
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POWER A LIGHT COMPANY
Farmers Not Only Ones Being Ignored
As Prosperity Comes to Many in U. S.
By Associated Press
Formers, an Associated Press
business roundup shows, will not
share fully In the bounding pros-
perity that now seems to await
most Americans in 1956. The indi-
cations are that auto dealers will
not either.
These people constitute t w o
major "soft spots" in the current
great business boom. You can find
other soft spots here and there —
in carpet weav'ng, hosiery ma-
nufacturing and textiles. How ser-
ious are they?
Here's the thinking^ of farmers,
bankers, auto dealers and others
interviewed by the Associated
Press in a nationwide business
survey:
feel a lean year may be due about
now
Home building is sometimes des-
cribed <as a "soft soot” in the ec-
onomic picture. The AP survey
shows home construction on the
upbeat in seven of the 28 cities
checked end definitely on the down-
trend In 19 others Some contrac-
tors complain that building loans
are hard to get: a Philadelphia
analyst observes that "it's not so
easy for the builders to borrow
money.” Home building is down
in Denver proper, but only be-
cause all available land has been
used up and the l*oom is now
going strong in the Denver sub-
urb:,.
U S. governrrnnt statisticians
DOI'BI.E COUSINS
"Tacoma, Wash —(P— Sons of
the Neal Herbrands and the Gil-
bert Herbrands, horn 20 minutes
apart, would be cousins even if
their fathers weren’t brothers.
Their mothers arc sisters.
CROCKETT IN KOREA
Fort I^ewis, Wash. —IP— Davey
Crockett has gone to Korea. Capt.
Davey Crockett, a Texan who is
a direct descent of the frontier he-
ro. who processed at the Fort Lew-
is Personnel Center for overseas
service.
Waldrep Ins. Agency. Phone SSS
Business cards, engraved
printed, at The Times.
Dr. W. B. Miesch
Optometrist
Lenses Prescribed
Eyes Examined
222 West Main Street
No. 1 complaint ot many farm-1 reported that 78 00n new homes
KSSS
ers is the continuing decline in
the prices they got for crops and
livestock, while coats of gasoline,
tractors, machineiy and fertilizer
climb higher and higher. The wea-
ther as 'always, is Jnso a target
of criticism.
In the drouth-plagued Kansas
farm licit, Raymond Dell, agricul-
tural economist for the 10th Fed-
eral Reserve District, says farm-
ers' income right now is the poor-
est it has been since the Depres-
sion days of the early 1930s. Bad
times on Kansas farms are blam-
ed for lagging overall business ac-\ .
tivity in Kansas City — one of
the very few U. S. cities where
business is expected to decline this
year
In Nebraska, an industrial boom
in Omaha contrasts sharply with
stagnant business conditions throu-
ghout the great farming areas. A
Denver economist says 54 out of
100 farmers In Colorado aren't
showing a profit and the livestock
growers face “disaster.”
Real Estate Value
The drouth has jeft its mark,
too, on farms in the Iowa Corn
Belt and in Illinois. Fruit crops
in some southern states have been
nipped by a late freezing spell;
farms in the Pacific Northwest
have been hurt by the heavy rains
and Hoods.
The survey points up one big
difference between the current j
farm slump and the cruel farm (
Depression of the 1930s — prices j
of term real estate are holding |
up. Some say it's because farm j
land is being sought increasingly ]
for industrial development. Be that
as it may, there has been no epi-
demic of foreclosures.
Truck farmers ill California are
looking for a banner year.
The loudest beefs of the auto
dealers concern the great outpour-
ing of new cars trqm the factory
gates, and skimpy dealer profit
margins. Now that production has
been throttled down, some dealers
are breathing easier, although in-
ventories of unsold new passvilgcX
cars still are close by the 900,000 j
mark.
Rudy Fick. Kansas City dealer, I
says his new and used car sales j
are off 4 per een. and "profits
of my firm mav be down as much |
as 40 per een* by the end of the ,
year.” A Seattle dealer com-j
plains that too many potential cus- I
tom ers are either paying off on
the new cars they bought last year
or waiting for the 1957 models "
Textile Industry
In St. Louis, big volume deal-
ers are reported quite pleased
witn the present heavy turnover
and low profit situation but smail
dealers are shouting ' uncle.” An
'Evanson, 111., dealer. Earl Zwcifel,
says unit sales are ahead of last
year 'but profits per car are not
what they should he." Dealers In
19 of the 28 ei'irs checked said
they expect sales as well as pro-
fits to show a drop this year.
The big exception is Denver,
swollen by an influx of new popu-
lation and industry New car sales
for the first two months of this
year were up a whooping 63 per
ent over yar-earder levels.
Textile manufacturers are wor-
rying out loud about the rising tide
of Japanese textile import?. U.
S mill men say printed and
dyed cotton fabrics are coming
from Japan at the rate of 20.000,-
000 vards a month and the Japa-
nese are stepping up their exports
of cotton handkerchiefs and blous-
es.
New England mills, which make
the same type of goods produc-
ed in heavy volume in Ja-
pan, say they are feeling the
squeeze; one large New’ England
cotton manufacturer already has
curtailed production.
I ran \ ears
Aside from the import problem,
there are signs, too that the U. fV 1
textile industry is suffering from
a mild case of overproduction. Pri-
ces of synthetic textiles and fi-
bers have been < ut recently and
the huge Burlington Mills organi-
zation last week curtailed output
of synthetic fabrics. A big carpel
mill at Amsterdam, N. Y.. has
slowed down.
The textile industry (radiiional-
ly runs in cycles, with good
years followed bv lean years, and
there are some in the trade who
Dogrs Outsmarted By
Spike-Horn Buck
Thayer, Mo —<#>— Down here
,.d the Missouri Ozark* the coun-
tryside dogs frequently gang up to
run whltetail deer Hut the deer
c setting smart, too
A dog pack w*« bellowing on
, ,,e track of a sp'.ke-hom buck
The tired animal veered to bypass
a farmer fixing fence. But the
farmer. Bud Chronlster, straighten-
ed up and hollered:
"Hey. boy!" Where do you think
vou’re going?" _
The fagged out deer walked up
to Chronlster and docilely allowed
the farmer to load him Into a
pickup truck. Then he rested up
In the farmer’s horn, eating hay
and waiting for the dogs to depart
before returning to hla own en-
vironment.
were started in February as com-
pared to 89,900 in the same
inonth last year. Activity has pick-
ed up sharply since then.
Nobody seems to know for sure
how home building will go for 1956.
One thing is certain however; Con-
tracts awarded for luture construc-
tion indicate thn,t any drop in
housing starts will be more than
offset by a continuing boom in con-
struction of dams bridges, roads,
schools, churches and shopping I
centers.
SHOX - STOK powers up to 15 miles of
single - wire fence — keeps animals IN
pastures . . . OUT of gardens. Low oper-
ating cost. 115 Volt A. C. and battery
models. Shox - Stok controllers are trouble - free, de-
pendable, and effective. Come in and see them.
Priced as low as $12.95.
WALKER'S
NE. Corner Square Phone 431
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$1
CLOSE OUT GROUP OF MEN'S LONG SLEEVE
SPORT SHIRTS
CLOSE OUT GROUP OF BOYS LONG SLEEVE
SPORT SHIRTS
CLOSE our GROUP OF BOYS' LONG SLEEVE
SPORT SHIRTS 7/C
FOR END Or SCHOOL SOCIALS—BOYS WOOL TWEED
SPORT COATS
"CLARKSVILLE TIGERS "—MEN'S OR BOYS' SCHOOL
POLO SHIRTS
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LADIES NO IRON COTTON HALF
PLISSE SLIPS
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DISCONTINUED WHITES OR PASTELS IN PERMANENT FINISH RAYON
ORGANDY PRISCILLAS *
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DRESSY DRESSES 4
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FLANHEL SUITS
9
10 ONLY JUNIOR OR MISSES CHROMSPUN
Stone Cutter Suits
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CLOSE OUT GROUP OF
Plus
Tax
[Ladies Purses 88
SIZES 3-4 AND 5—GIRLS WASHABLE, CREASE RESISTANT RAYON $0%
Butcher Weave Suits 3
GIRLS EASY TO CARE FOR COTTON
Sleeveless Blouses
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GIRLS SIZES 8 AND 10 ONLY— RAYON
Faille Dusters
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raOONE OR ROTA AGAIN
GIRLS SIZE 8 AND 12 ONLY—WASHABLE
Nylon Short Coats
CLOSE OUT GROUP OF LADIES BETTER
Dressy Skirts_____
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